[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 167 (Thursday, October 26, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Page S15843]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          JUDGE ROBERT E. WISS

  Mr. THURMOND. Mr. President, I rise today to pay tribute to an 
outstanding judge, a faithful naval officer, and a remarkable 
individual, the Honorable Robert E. Wiss, a judge on the U.S. Court of 
Appeals for the Armed Forces. Judge Wiss was 66 when he passed away on 
Monday morning, October 23, 1995.
  Judge Wiss was born in Chicago, IL in 1929 and graduated from the 
University of Illinois in 1950. He entered the service in that same 
year for 3 years of active duty but he did not end his military career 
at that point. He continued in the reserves and finally retired in 1988 
as a rear admiral in the Navy's Judge Advocate Generals Corps.
  Judge Wiss was an excellent lawyer who received his degree from 
Northwestern in 1956 and taught law at John Marshall Law School. He was 
a member of numerous bar associations and was admitted to practice 
before over a half dozen courts to include the U.S. Supreme Court.
  He was truly a talented individual who loved the military, understood 
it mission, and believed in a strong national defense. He fully 
understood as well the need for the Uniform Code of Military Justice. 
Judge Wiss believed that the system was better than any other system of 
justice in existence but if change was needed, it should be pursued 
with vigor. If no change was in order, however, Judge Wiss did not 
tolerate anything short of complete adherence and respect for that 
system.
  In the eyes of those who knew him, he was a legal figure of great 
stature. In his own mind, he was never important, only extremely 
fortunate. All people mattered to him and his wife and children most of 
all. Our thoughts and prayers will be with his wife Charlene and his 
three daughters, Julia, Karen, and Laurel. He will be missed.

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