NEAL RUTLEDGE

RUTLEDGE--Neal Person,

88, died November 10, 2015, of bladder cancer. Born St. Louis, MO February 23, 1927, the son of Justice Wiley B. Rutledge, Jr., President Franklin Roosevelt's last appointment to the Supreme Court, and Annabel Person Rutledge. Sidwell Friends School, 1944; Harvard College, 1947; Yale Law School, 1950; United States Marine Corps, 1945 -1946; Clerked Judge Charles Fahy, U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit, Justice Hugo L. Black, U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. AEC 1952-1953. Private practice, Miami FL, Claude Pepper Law Offices; Faircloth & Rutledge; Rutledge & Milledge, until 1970. Taught law, at University of Miami, Duke, North Carolina Central. Private practice, Wald, Harkrader & Ross, Washington, DC, 1974-1980. Significant cases: Green v. American Tobacco (first finding that smoking caused lung cancer); the Florida reapportionment cases, Swann v. Adams. Represented unions in the Florida East Coast Railway strike. Argued many cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. Married 52 years to Catherine LeFevre Rutledge until her death in 2000. Survived by his wife, Carolyn Killea, his children, Peter, Wiley, Philip, Sarah, and Neal Andrew, and by four grandchildren.