[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 38 (Thursday, March 30, 2000)]
[Senate]
[Page S1977]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   TRIBUTE TO STUART PRENTISS HERMAN

 Mrs. FEINSTEIN. Mr. President, I rise today in memory of 
Stuart Prentiss Herman, a prominent California attorney who passed away 
recently, in Los Angeles, at the young age of 57 after battling cancer.
  Mr. Herman lived his life fighting injustice and discrimination 
wherever he found it. He was active in the civil rights movement of the 
1960's, and began his legal career in 1968 as a trial attorney in the 
Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice.
  After his term as a federal attorney, Mr. Herman entered private 
practice. His legal work was devoted to labor and civil rights law, and 
he was highly respected throughout the country as a litigator, a 
mediator, and an arbitrator of complex and significant cases, 
particularly in the areas of racial discrimination and sexual 
harassment. In addition to his private practice, Mr. Herman was 
committed to providing legal services to the less privileged members of 
our society, and served on the Managing Committee of Bet Tzedek Legal 
Services, the Southern California Committee of the NAACP Legal Defense 
Fund and the Board of Directors of the Western Law Center for 
Disability Rights.
  He was also committed to preserving the quality of our legal system, 
having served on the California State Bar Complainants' Grievance Panel 
and the Los Angeles Police Commission's discipline panels, and our 
judiciary, having served on the Los Angeles County Bar Association's 
Judicial Evaluations Committee and on the U.S. Court of Appeals' Ninth 
Circuit Task Force on Judicial Reporting.
  Stuart Prentiss Herman was an exemplary attorney, having truly 
dedicated his life to the pursuit of justice for all Americans. I rise 
today in recognition of all that he accomplished during his lifetime, 
and in sadness that he passed away at such an early age.

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