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>Another interesting appointment who had no prior experience as a judge was Earl Warren, who was appointed as Chief Justice without having served any time on the Supreme (or any other) Court. President Eisenhower later said that appointing Warren was one of his deepest regrets, because Warren turned out to much more liberal politically than he had expected.
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>Interesting factoid about Earl Warren (from Wikipedia): He was elected to three terms as Governor of California. When he ran for his second term in 1946, he ran as a candidate in the open primaries of all three major parties (Republican, Democrat and Progressive) and won all three primaries! Therefore, he won the general election (as a Republican) without any opposition from the other two parties. Pretty amazing, huh?

David;

My family (except for my younger brother) is registered as Democrat. California Democrats are different than the main party, historically. Even that is changing. As I grew up my family would talk about Earl Warren, our governor. He was deeply appreciated in our Irish Catholic neighborhood in San Francisco, as he was a fair man and concerned with the common man.

Personally, I appreciate what Earl Warren did as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, to help further Civil Rights.

Solomon was a great leader who was said to make fair and just decisions. I wonder what previous experience he had? :)

Tom