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...times have changed: “When we try to appoint an assistant professor today, it’s more like appointing a senior faculty member,” Dowling says...
Before assuming her role as Dean of the College in June 2008, Evelynn M. Hammonds served as senior vice provost for faculty development and diversity, advising University President Drew G. Faust on issues of faculty diversity. So when Hammonds had the chance to appoint two new House Master couples to Winthrop and Pforzheimer Houses within seven months of assuming the deanship, diversity was naturally one of her top priorities...
...clambering to anoint a successor to Justice John Paul Stevens, the leading liberal on the bench and a 35-year veteran of the top court, who announced last week that he will retire at the end of this term. There's already talk of potential precedents: Will Obama appoint the first Asian-American Justice? Boost the number of women on the court to a historic three? No matter whom he chooses, once his nominee is confirmed, the President will have seated as many Justices as any first-term President since Richard Nixon (who pushed through four). And we're barely...
Quick off the blocks, Obama will still be hard-pressed to best the prolific appointers of ages past. The one to beat is George Washington - who, admittedly, had a bit of a leg up, starting the Supreme Court, as he did, from scratch. One of the first bills ever to be introduced in the Senate, the Judiciary Act, constituted a Supreme Court made up of a Chief Justice and five associates. Washington signed it on Sept. 24, 1789, and within hours he nominated six men to fill the posts. Congress responded with a haste that is unimaginable today: five nominees...
...Roosevelt came closest. The total number of Supreme Court Justices had changed six times since Washington's days in office, parking at nine in 1869. With his New Deal on the line, though, Roosevelt tried to make room on the bench for his supporters by claiming the right to appoint a new Justice - up to a max of 15 - whenever a sitting one turned 70 and refused to retire. His infamous "court packing" scheme never passed, but he did get all nine nominees he floated during his three terms confirmed. (By contrast, John Tyler served up nine nominations from...