[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 30 (Wednesday, March 10, 2004)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2541-S2542]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS

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                    RECOGNITION OF E. NORMAN VEASEY

 Mr. CARPER. Madam President, I rise today in recognition of 
the Honorable E. Norman Veasey upon his retirement as Chief Justice of 
the Supreme Court of Delaware. He has served as Chief Justice of the 
State of Delaware for 12 years. His leadership over that span of time 
has won him the respect and gratitude of our entire State. He has been, 
and remains, a trusted friend.
  Chief Justice Veasey was born on January 9, 1933 in Wilmington, DE to 
the late Dr. Eugene E. Veasey and Elizabeth N. Burnett. He attended the 
Peddie School in Hightstown, NJ. From there, he went on to Dartmouth 
College where he obtained his A.B. in 1954. He then attended the 
University of Pennsylvania Law School where he graduated in 1957 with 
his LL.B. At the University of Pennsylvania Law School, he was a Member 
of the Board of Editors of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review 
from 1955 to 1957 and was Senior Editor from 1956 to 1957. He was 
admitted to the Delaware Bar in 1958.
  Chief Justice Veasey has spent most of his life in public service. He 
served honorably in the Delaware Air National Guard from 1957 to 1968 
whereby he obtained the rank of captain. He has also served, among a 
long list, as Chief Deputy Attorney General of the State of Delaware, 
Chair of the Delaware Board of Bar Examiners, President of the 
Conference of Chief Justices in 2000, Chair of the ABA Special 
Committee on the Evaluation of the Rules of Professional Conduct 
``Ethics 2000'', and President of the Delaware State Bar Association. 
Furthermore, he served as a Director of Beneficial Corporation and 
National Bank for 13 years from 1979 to 1992.
  From 1957 to 1988, he was a member of the prestigious Delaware law 
firm of Richards, Layton & Finger, with practice emphasis in corporate 
transactions, litigation and counseling. He was a member of the firm 
from 1957 to 1992, serving as a partner from 1963 to 1992 and as 
president from 1985 to 1988.
  Judge Veasey became Chief Justice of the State of Delaware on April 
7, 1992, having been nominated to that post by then Governor Michael N. 
Castle and unanimously confirmed by the Delaware State Senate. Chief 
Justice Veasey is a Judicial Fellow of the American College of Trial 
Lawyers and is a member of both the Standing Committee on Rules of 
Practice and Procedure of the United States Judicial Conference and the 
American Law Institute. He is a Life Fellow of the American Bar 
Foundation and a director of the Institute for Law and Economics at the 
University of Pennsylvania. He has been a frequent speaker on corporate 
governance, ethics and professionalism at continuing legal education 
programs and has been published widely in the fields related to 
corporate governance.
  In June of 2002, Chief Justice Veasey received the 2002 Paul C. 
Reardon Award, one of the highest awards given by the National Center 
for State Courts, NCSC. The Reardon Award, named after the late 
Massachusetts Supreme Court Justice who was the first president of The 
National Center's Board of Directors, is presented to a person who has 
made outstanding contributions to the improvement of the justice system 
and who has supported the mission of The National Center.
  Chief Justice Veasey has been a member of the Conference of Chief 
Justices since 1992, and headed the conference from 1999 to 2000, a 
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honor for him and for Delaware. He has been intimately involved in 
issues of attorney ethics, having served as chair of the American Bar 
Association's Special Committee on Evaluation of Rules of Professional 
Conduct, Ethics 2000. A frequent speaker on corporate governance, 
ethics, and professionalism at continuing legal education programs, 
Chief Justice Veasey has been published widely in the fields related to 
corporate governance. From 1994 to 1995, he was Chair of the Section of 
Business Law of the ABA. Justice Veasey is also a Judicial Fellow of 
the American College of Trial Lawyers.
  Justice Veasey has been married to the former Suzanne Johnson for 47 
years. Both he and Suzy are the proud parents of four children, Andrew, 
Douglas, E. Norman, Jr. and Marian Elizabeth, and even prouder 
grandparents to eleven grandchildren.
  Through Chief Justice Veasey's tireless efforts, he has made a 
profound difference in the lives of thousands of Delawareans. Upon his 
retirement, he will leave behind a legacy of commitment to public 
service for both his children and grandchildren and for the generations 
that will follow. I thank him for the friendship that we share and for 
the privilege of working closely with him when I served as Governor of 
Delaware from 1993 to 2001. On behalf of all Delawareans, I 
congratulate him on a truly remarkable and distinguished career. I wish 
him, Suzy and their family only the very best in all that lies ahead 
for each of them.

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