Our Father, a practicing Catholic all of his life, had twelve children evenly split between boys and girls. He always believed in the full right of a woman over the control of her own body. Three of his daughters have become highly regarded attorneys in their fields in the State of California. His remains are interred on the campus of Notre Dame University. He would be dispirited by the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to replace the seat of Ruth Bader Ginsberg. This nomination was made with mendacity, self evident in the Superspreader event held at the Whitehouse that appeared to be endorsed by the current President of Notre Dame Father John Jenkins who appeared unmasked and ignored all social distancing. The nomination was made by a President who for all matters of fact is illegitimate. We his children have great conviction that this nomination would be, in his system of beliefs, illegitimate as well.
As recent events have shown the partisanship of the US Supreme Court is now boundless:
Dean's Office, Notre Dame Law School, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana - Fall 1968
Notre Dame - 1943
Buffalo, Grand Isle or South Bend - 1944 (?)
Riding Buntie the pony circa 1958
Bois de Boulogne, 1963; camping thru Europe
Buffalo, NY 1967
William B. Lawless
- Born, Tonawanda, New York, June 12, 1922
- Attended Canisius High School, Buffalo, New York 1936-1940
- Received law degree from University of Notre Dame, 1944
- Married Jeanne Offermann, 1944
- U.S. Navy, South Pacific, 1944-1946
- Harvard University, LLM, 1951
- Served as Buffalo Corporation Counsel, 1954
- Buffalo Common Council President (the youngest at age 35), 1955
- Partner in the firm Lawless, Doerr & Offermann, 1956
- Alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1956
- Consultant to the U.S. State Department at the Constitutional Convention for the mission to the Philippine Islands 1958
- Turned down post with United States housing agency (HUD)
- Elected New York State Supreme Court Justice, 1959.
- Dean of Notre Dame Law School, 1968
- Resigns Deanship at Notre Dame Law School to join New York City law firm Mudge, Rose, Guthrie, Alexander, Mitchel and Nixon (now defunct, closing in 1995), 1971
- Member, New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct, 1974-75
- Partner in the law firm Hawkins, Delafield & Wood, LLP, NYC, 1980
- President, Western State University, Los Angeles, CA, 1984
- Dean, National Judicial College, Reno, NV, 1988
- National Judicial College Related
- Trinity College, Hartford CT, Adjunct Professor, 1992 to present.
- LLD, Rosary Hill College, Western State University
- Father of twelve (12) children, many of which are, guess? attorneys
- Passed away 23 April 2007 at St. Mary's Hospital, San Francisco, Cailfornia.
Cleveland, Ohio 1976
Burial, University of Notre Dame, 11NOV17
Burial, University of Notre Dame, 11NOV17
Moot Court, University of Notre Dame, 11NOV17