NOMINATION OF JUDGE ROBERT E. QUINN HEARING.../ BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES UNITED STATES SENATE EIGHTY-NINTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION. ON NOMINATION OF JUDGE ROBERT EMMETT QUINN, OF 63-477 MAY 12, 1966 Printed for the use of the Committee on Armed Services COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES RICHARD B. RUSSELL, Georgia, Chairman JOHN STENNIS, Mississippi DANIEL K. INOUYE, Hawaii THOMAS J. MCINTYRE, New Hampshire DANIEL B. BREWSTER, Maryland HARRY FAB MED Virginia LEVERETT SALTONSTALL, Massachusetts MARGARET CHASE SMITH, Maine STROM THURMOND, South Carolina JACK MILLER, Iowa JOHN G. TOWER, Texas H. DARDEN, Chief of Staff NOMINATION OF JUDGE ROBERT EMMETT QUINN FOR REAPPOINTMENT AS A JUDGE OF THE U.S. COURT OF MILITARY APPEALS THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1966 U.S. SENATE, COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES, Washington, D.C. The committee met, pursuant to call, at 10:35 a.m., in room 212, Old Senate Office Building, Senator Richard B. Russell (chairman) presiding. Present: Senators Russell, Stennis, Cannon, Young of Ohio, Saltonstall, Smith, and Thurmond. Also present: William H. Darden, chief of staff; T. Edward Braswell and Gordon A. Nease, professional staff members; Charles B. Kirbow, chief clerk; Herbert S. Atkinson, assistant chief clerk. NOMINATION OF JUDGE QUINN Chairman RUSSELL. The committee will come to order. At the last meeting of the committee, the nomination of Robert Emmett Quinn of Rhode Island for reappointment as a Judge of the U.S. Court of Military Appeals for a term of 15 years came before the committee. We have had some additions to the committee since Judge Quinn's original appointment. Some of the members have not had an opportunity to examine Judge Quinn or to meet him and know him, and the matter was, therefore, carried over until today to have a hearing. Ordinarily, we do not hear those who are up for reappoint ment. Judge, will you be good enough to take a seat at the end of the table? I have been asked by both the Senators from Rhode Island, Senators Pastore and Pell, to inform the committee of their high regard for Judge Quinn, and the fact that they urge prompt and favorable action on this nomination. I also will ask to have printed in the record a brief résumé of Judge Quinn's life and services. (The nomination reference and résumé referred to follow:) NOMINATION REFERENCE AND REPORT IN EXECUTIVE SESSION, Ordered, That the following nomination be referred to the Committee on Armed Services: Robert Emmett Quinn, of Rhode Island, to be a judge of the Court of Military Appeals for the term of fifteen years expiring May 1, 1981. (Reappointment.) 1 Robert Emmett Quinn, chief judge; born in Phenix, R.I., April 2, 1894; son of Charles and Mary Ann (McCabe) Quinn; A. B., Brown University, 1915; LL.B., Harvard, 1918; married Mary Carter, August 3, 1923; children, Norma Marie, Robert Carter, Pauline Fulton, Cameron Peter, and Penelope Dorr; admitted to Rhode Island bar and practicing attorney at Providence, R.I., since 1917; member United States Diplomatic Intelligence Service in England and France, 1917-19; member, Rhode Island senate, 1923-25 and 1929-33; lieutenant governor, State of Rhode Island, 1933-36; Governor, State of Rhode Island 1937-39; judge, Rhode Island Superior Court commencing May 1, 1941; legal officer, First Naval District, 1942-45; captain, United States Naval Reserve since February 1942; commanding officer, Naval Reserve Volunteer Legal Unit of Rhode Island, 1947-50; president, Kent County Bar Association; member, American and Rhode Island Bar Associations; member, Phi Kappa; member, Brown, Harvard, Wannamoisett, Turks Head, West Warwich Country and Army and Navy Clubs; nominated by President Truman to chief judge of the United States Court of Military Appeals May 22, 1951, for the term expiring May 1, 1966, confirmed by Senate June 19, 1951, and took oath of office June 20, 1951, under commission of President Truman dated June 20, 1951; Democrat; Roman Catholic. Chairman RUSSELL. Judge, we are glad to have you here. STATEMENT OF JUDGE ROBERT E. QUINN, NOMINEE, OF RHODE ISLAND, FOR REAPPOINTMENT AS A JUDGE OF THE U.S. COURT OF MILITARY APPEALS Judge QUINN. Thank you, Senator. Chairman RUSSELL. It has been some time since we first saw you at this table. Judge QUINN. It has been a long time. Chairman RUSSELL. Does any member of the committee have any questions to pose to Judge Quinn? Senator Saltonstall? Senator SALTONSTALL. Judge, you have been a member of this court with Judge Ferguson, and Judge Kilday, our former Congressman from Texas. You have been a member since its inception. Judge QUINN. Yes; that is right, Senator. Senator SALTONSTALL. And you would like to continue? Judge QUINN. Yes. I would be glad to, if the committee would like to have me. The President appointed me; and I would be glad to serve at least for a few years, as long as the law will let me. Senator SALTONSTALL. And you are in physical and mental health, in your own opinion, to continue this work? Judge QUINN. Yes; I think so, Senator Saltonstall. Senator SALTONSTALL. And you like the service with your colleagues, Ferguson and Kilday? Judge QUINN. Yes; I enjoy my service with them very much. They are both very fine men. Senator SALTONSTALL. Mr. Chairman, I have no further questions except to have you note, as undoubtedly you already have, that Judge Quinn is another Harvard man. Judge QUINN. Don't hold that against me. Chairman RUSSELL. We will see if we can find any mitigating circumstances, Judge. Senator Stennis, do you have any questions? Senator STENNIS. I would just like to know something about the volume of work of the court. I believe you were one of the first appointees, were you not? |