John T. Noonan, Jr.

John T. Noonan, Jr.

John Thomas Noonan, Jr. (born October 24, 1926 in Boston, Massachusetts) is a Senior Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, with chambers in San Francisco, California. He was appointed in 1985 by President Ronald Reagan.

Education and practice

Judge Noonan graduated from Harvard University with an A.B. in 1946. He received his M.A. in 1948 and his Ph.D. in 1951 from The Catholic University of America. In 1954, he received an LL.B. from Harvard Law School.

After law school, Noonan worked as Special Staff to the United States National Security Council, assisting National Security Advisor Robert Cutler from 1954-1955. He then entered private practice, working for the law firm of Herrick Smith Donald Farley & Ketchum from 1955 until 1960.

Academic career

In 1960, Noonan joined the faculty at the University of Notre Dame Law School, where he taught until 1966. In that year, Noonan became Professor of Law at Boalt Hall, the law school of the University of California, Berkeley.

Judicial career

In 1985, President Ronald Reagan appointed Noonan to the newly-created 27th seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He was nominated on October 16, 1985 and confirmed on December 16, 1985, receiving his commission the following day. Judge Noonan took senior status on December 27, 1996.

Books

Noonan is the author of several books:
*"The Scholastic Analysis of Usury" (1957)
*"Contraception: A History of Its Treatment by the Catholic Theologians and Canonists" (1968) (ISBN 0-674-16853-4)
*"The Morality of Abortion: Legal and Historical Perspectives" (1970) (ISBN 0-674-58725-1) (editor)
*"Power to Dissolve: Lawyers and Marriages in the Courts of the Roman Curia" (1972) (ISBN 0-674-69575-5)
*"Persons and Masks of the Law: Cardozo, Holmes, Jefferson and Wythe as Makers of the Masks" (1975) (ISBN 0-520-23523-1)
*"A Private Choice: Abortion in America in the Seventies" (1979) (ISBN 0-02-923160-4)
*"The Role and Responsibility of the Moral Philosopher" (1982) (ISBN 0-918090-16-4) (editor, with Daniel O. Dahlstrom and Desmond J. FitzGerald)
*"Bribes" (1984) (ISBN 0-02-922880-8)
*"The Antelope: The Ordeal of the Recaptured Africans in the Administrations of John Quincy Adams & James Monroe" (1990) (ISBN 0-520-03319-1)
*"Professional and Personal Responsibilities of the Lawyer" (1997) (ISBN 1-56662-962-4) (casebook editor, with Richard W. Painter)
*"The Lustre of Our Country: The American Experience of Religious Freedom" (1998) (ISBN 0-520-20997-4)
*"Religious Freedom: History, Cases, and Other Materials on the Interaction of Religion and Government" (2001) (ISBN 1-56662-962-4) (casebook editor, with Edward McGlynn Gaffney)
*"Narrowing the Nation's Power: The Supreme Court Sides with the States" (2002) (ISBN 0-520-23574-6)
*"A Church That Can And Cannot Change: The Development of Catholic Moral Teaching" (2005) (ISBN 0-268-03603-9)


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