Word: volner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...notorious at first for her courtroom miniskirts, but before she had completed her term as assistant Watergate special prosecutor, Jill Wine Volner had established a reputation as a cool, shrewd and resourceful lawyer. After 1½ years in private practice in Washington, D.C., Volner, 33, has accepted a post as General Counsel of the Army, in charge of thousands of Army lawyers around the world. "It's a rare challenge. It's having an impact on things that matter," said Jill. She may also have her foot in the right door. Her predecessors in the job: Secretary...
...chapter in The Women of Watergate, but then so does every other female however remotely connected to the scandal. This paste-up of old clippings serves principally as a reminder that Watergate created not just victimized wives but several heroines: Washington Post Publisher Katharine Graham, Prosecutor Jill Wine Volner, Representatives Barbara Jordan and Elizabeth Holtzman. Aside from that, the book sags with speculation ("Yet there is a great deal that [Pat Ellsberg] does not say, but it is impossible to believe she has not felt") and shameless padding ("Jill Volner certainly did not grow up in a way that would...
Jill Wine Volner, LL.D., former Watergate assistant prosecutor...
...crossexamination, the dour Mardian came on strong. He tried to overwhelm Assistant Special Prosecutor Jill Wine Volner by sneering contemptuously at her questions. To one, he replied: "Go ahead and make a speech, Mrs. Volner." When she asked a follow-up question, he shot back: "Do you want me to say yes-yes?" Ignoring rebukes from Judge Sirica, Mardian frequently turned to the jury to deliver his own version of the evidence...
...both of whom were charged with lying to federal agencies. All five defendants are expected to take the stand in their own defense. But they will also expose themselves to the crisp cross-examination of the prosecution team, most notably Neal, 46; Richard Ben-Veniste, 31; and Jill Wine Volner, 31. Each defendant is in dire but different straits...