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Professor Greenewalt's Life and Career
Professor Greenewalt passed away on January 27th at 86 after a nine-year battle with Alzheimer's. The professor grew up in Westchester in the 1940s and his father was a trial lawyer known for taking religious discrimination cases. After graduating from Swarthmore in Columbia Law School, Greenewalt worked as an attorney for the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law in Jackson, Mississippi during the 10th summer of 1965. He also spent time in Washington clerking for Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan and serving as Deputy Solicitor General in the DOJ in the early 1970s.