LETTER TO THE HONORABLE WILLIAM E. COLBY FROM EDWARD ALLEN TAMM

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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 9, 2001
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: February 13, 1974
• Content Type: LETTER

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February 13, 1974
The Honorable William E. Colby
Director
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
I write you in my capacity as Chairman of the Federal Bar
Association Selection Committee for the Justice Tom C. Clark
Award. This award is made annually to the individual selected as
the outstanding career lawyer in Government Service in Washington.
The Selection Committee hopes that the heads of departments
and agencies of the Executive Branch are alerted to the significance
of this award and the need to have appropriate nominations made so
that we will be able to select from a truly representative group
of nominees.
Although your office has probably received information on
this subject from other sources I am attaching a copy of the notice,
and hope that you will designate some responsible member of your
staff to make certain that the matter receives consideration from
those familiar with the work of your career lawyers. I am sure
I need not say more on the value of this program in terms of its
encouraging excellence in performance.
Cordially yours,
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THE JUSTIC : TOM C. C=K ANNUAL
A A D FOR TI YEAR 1974
The annual "Justice Tom C. Clark Award" will be given for the fifteenth
consecutive year in 1974. The award will by presented at a luncheon meeting of
the District of Columbia Chapter to be held on h 28 97 ;. Chief Justice Warren
Z. Burger is the Honorary Chairman of the selection panel for the award. The
c.hai asan and members of the panel are:
Hon. William B. Sake
John Douglas
George A. Avery
Judge, United Staten Court of Appeals
for the District of Columbia Circuit
The Attorney General
Dean, George Washington University
Law School
Private Practice
President, District of Columbia
Chapter, 1'edehal Bar Association
The vomm;Lttee requests that nominations be forwarded not later than IT
22, 1974 to Chapter Presidents George A. Avery, The Federal' Bar Association,
D.C. Chapter, 115 H Street, N.V., Washington, D.C. 20006, in the manner of
a: anbi?saion hereinafter set forth.
There follows a description of this important award:
The award known as the "Justice Tom C. Clark Award" is presented annn lly
by the District of Columbia Chapter of The Federal Bar Association in repo; nition
of outstanding accomplishments by lawyers of the career service employed in the
District of Columbia by the United States Government or by the Government of the
District of Columbia. The ,? and is so named because it honors our former rational
President in his distinguished career as a goverment attorney, as the A.ttorne7
ocn ara,n1 of the United States, as ?a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United
a :>Lates, and as the First Director of the Federal Judicial Center.
The purpose of the awards program is threefold:
(1) to give public recognition to career lawyers who have
performed outstanding work. for the United States vernment
or for the Government. of the 3iatrict of Columbia, or in the
field of Federal public law generally;
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(2) to stimulate the interest of tine 'public and the
legal profession in the diversified opportunities
and responsibilities of such career lawyers, and
in the significant contributions made by those; and
(3) to encourage high standards of performance by career
lawyers
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Award
The following criteria of accomplishment are considered by the judging
panel in selecting nominees:
(1)
General accomplishments -- a nominee may be qualified
by outstanding legal ability, scholarship, and performance
over a sustained period even though these are not relateable
(2) Specific accomplishments -- a specific aocomplishnt
is one for which the nominee is primarily *responsible,
which results in significant benefit to the Government
,or the legal profession, and which constitutes a con-
tribution to the development of public law. The accomp-
lishmcnt of the'noan,inee should be reasonably related in
time to the year preceding, the nomination.
i t i off gaiw t l
Any civilian or military career attorney employed in the District of Columbia
by the United States Government or by the Government of the District of Columbia
at the time' of the accomplishment for which the award is given is eligible to
receive the award, except as hereinafter provided.
A nominee will not be considered unless the accomplishments constituting the
i:na ais for his nomination occurred or were performed during the five year period
ok Government service immediately preceding the date of the submjssion of the
nomination, nor if such Government service was terminated more taan.one year
preceding the date of the submission of the nomination.
No nominee will be considered for the award if the accomplishments consti-
tuting the chief basis for his nomination were required of him in an office of
the United Staten Government or the Government of the District of Columbia, pur-
,aqr. rat to appointment by the Preis. daunt and confirmation by the Senate, or while
cn-vi.ra t in a judicial or quasi-judicial. capacity.
Nominations Manner of Submiyssion
Heads of dE.partments and carascIonw arone oura ec to jubmit nominations for
rM?-
tae nt a rd on behalf of tmq t or lified personnel in their de par
tMembers of the District of Columbia Chapter of The rederal Bar Association are
also urged to submit nominations in writing addressed to the President of the
District of Colunabiaa Chapter on or before March 22, 1974, for the current award.
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No avamkl.nnti.okl, w.i.ll, loo coots f.cle+:ec1 by the J111:1$ ik'tg panel unl.eflo it tneetf the
r?i:"Indaard hereaa1 ter prescribed:
(1) The presentation must be tylpewritten, or mimeographed,
on standard 8" x 10O " sheets, double spaced.
The first paragraph must state (a) the name and age
of the pominee, (b) the total number of years during
which he has served in the United States Government
or in the Goverment of the District of Columbia, and
(e) the cepartaaent or agencies in which he has served
or is presently nerving.
(3) Following the information in (2) above, the presentation
should develop and enlarge on the substantive reasons why
the nominee is thought to qualify.
(4) The presentation should not exceed five pages in total.
(5) Sev n cce es of the presentation should-be submitted.
Exhibits are not to be attached to the presentation.
William G. Malone
Chairman, Awards Program
Laurence H. Axman
Vice Chairma n
D.C. Chapter Awards Program
Patricia H. Collins
Secretary I
D.C. Chapter Awards Program
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