John T. Noonan Jr.

John Thomas Noonan Jr. (October 24, 1926 – April 17, 2017) was an American circuit judge. He served as a Circuit Judge on the United States Circuit Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from December 17, 1985 through December 27, 1996.^[1]

Noonan Jr. in 1985

Noonan Jr. was born in Boston, Massachusetts.^[2] He studied at Harvard University, at St John's College, Cambridge and at The Catholic University of America. From 1967 until his death in 2017, Noonan Jr. was married to Mary Lee Bennett. They had three children.

Noonan Jr. died on April 17, 2017 in Berkeley, California, aged 90.

References

1. "Former Laetare Medalist Judge John T. Noonan to deliver address at Notre Dame's Commencement". Notre Dame News. 30 April 2009. Retrieved 9 February 2014.
2. Noonan, John Thomas Jr. (1998). The Lustre of Our Country: the American Experience of Religious Freedom. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press. pp. 15, 18, 23, 24, 25. ISBN 0-520-20997-4.

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