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Math Major on the Supreme Court? News
By dkung
Posted Mon Oct 03, 2005 at 08:25:05 AM PDT
Harriet Miers was just nominated to the supreme court. She's had a long legal career but her undergraduate degree was in ... you guessed it - Mathematics!

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Harriet Miers:

B.S. in Mathematics, Southern Methodist University, 1967

J.D., Southern Methodist University, 1970

I've always told my students that they can do anything with a math major - but being nominated to the Supreme Court wasn't one of the specific things I had suggested! Her complete bio: here.

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Math Major on the Supreme Court? | 2 comments (2 topical, 0 hidden)
[new] The other math major who comes to mind ... (none / 0) (#1)
by overconvergent on Sat Oct 08, 2005 at 01:58:45 PM PDT

is Ahmed Chalabi (of the Iraqi National Congress), who got a PhD in ring theory and actually published a few papers. He has an Erdos number of 6.


[new] She won't be the first (none / 0) (#2)
by Max on Sun Oct 09, 2005 at 06:11:09 AM PDT

If confirmed, Harriet Miers will not be the first math major to sit on the Supreme Court. The late Justice Harry Blackmun was a Harvard math major.


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