David H. Souter (Retired), Associate Justice,
was born in Melrose, Massachusetts, September 17, 1939. He graduated from
Harvard College, from which he received his A.B. After two years as a Rhodes
Scholar at Magdalen College, Oxford, he received an A.B. in Jurisprudence from
Oxford University and an M.A. in 1963. After receiving an LL.B. from Harvard
Law School, he was an associate at Orr and Reno in Concord, New Hampshire from
1966 to 1968, when he became an Assistant Attorney General of New Hampshire. In
1971, he became Deputy Attorney General and in 1976, Attorney General of New
Hampshire. In 1978, he was named an Associate Justice of the Superior Court of
New Hampshire, and was appointed to the Supreme Court of New Hampshire as an
Associate Justice in 1983. He became a Judge of the United States Court of
Appeals for the First Circuit on May 25, 1990. President Bush nominated him as
an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and he took his seat October 9,
1990. Justice Souter retired from the Supreme Court on June 29, 2009.