William H. Rehnquist in the Mirror of Justices

Abstract Once again it was a great honor to be back here at the University of Tulsa College of Law for the Rehnquist Conference. Cumulatively perhaps it is the nicest honor of all to have been invited to be part of all three of these sequential Supreme Court symposia, beginning with the Warren Court conference in 1994 and then followed by the Burger Court conference in 1996. The other participants in this symposia have perhaps said somewhat less than one might expect about both William H. Rehnquist as an individual jurist and about the eight Justices with whom he currently serves. Thus my remarks here are going to focus both on William H. Rehnquist’s individual judicial voice since 1972 and on William Rehnquist’s service as Chief Justice since 1986.