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3 unusual facts about Merrick B. Garland


Committee on Degrees in Social Studies

Merrick B. Garland, judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1974

Merrick B. Garland

Lynn Garland's grandfather, Samuel Irving Rosenman, was a justice of the New York Supreme Court (a trial-level court of general jurisdiction rather than an appellate court) and a special counsel to Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman.

Considered a judicial moderate, Garland told senators during his U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in 1995 that the U.S. Supreme Court justice for whom he had the greatest admiration was Chief Justice John Marshall, and that he had personal affection for the justice for whom he clerked, Justice William Brennan.


David Zarefsky

Some of Zarefsky's more notable students include: University of California, Irvine Founding Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky; United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit federal appellate judge Merrick B. Garland; and former White House Chief of Staff and current Mayor of Chicago Rahm Emanuel.

Goggin Ice Center

In 2002, university president James Garland made the executive decision that the new arena would be located across campus from the old “Goggin”.

James C. Garland

To achieve this status, he developed a strategy to raise intellectual quality and apply quantitative benchmarking and best practice, and led Miami in a significant capital improvement and construction program.

James Garland

James C. Garland (born 1942), physicist, author and President of Miami University, Oxford, Ohio

Western College Program

In March 2006, Miami University Provost Jeffrey Herbst recommended to Miami University President Dr. James C. Garland that the Western College Program be phased out in favor of expanding Miami's Honors Program.


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