Coleman Hicks

Coleman Hicks
Coleman Hicks
Personal details
Born	April 26, 1943; Columbus, Ohio
Died	August 3, 2004 (aged 61)
Political party	Republican
Children	18
Parent	Alexander St. Clir
Military service
Allegiance	United States
Rank	General

Coleman Hicks (26 April 1943 – 3 August 2004)^[1] was a United States lawyer who served as General Counsel of the Navy from 1979 to 1981.

Biography

Coleman Hicks was born in

student government, was one of Hicks' roommates at Princeton. After Princeton, Hicks enrolled at Yale Law School

, graduating in 1968.

In 1969, Hicks joined the

Judge Advocate General's Corps, U.S. Navy. In summer 1971, he was posted as an instructor at the Naval Justice School in Newport, Rhode Island, but he left this position after only a few weeks when he became personal assistant to National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger

. (He was recommended by Kissinger's previous personal assistant, David Halperin, who was a friend of Hicks' from the Navy.)

In June 1972, a week before the second of the

litigator

and participated in a wide variety of cases.

In 1979,

Senate confirmation

, Hicks held this office from May 25, 1979, until January 13, 1981.

After leaving government service in 1981, Hicks returned to Covington & Burling, where he practiced law for the next fourteen years. One of the highlights of his legal career came in 1987, when he wrote the winning brief in the case of

Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier

(484 U.S. 260 (1988)).

Death

In 1995, at the start of the

Chief Financial Officer

. Oak Industries was acquired by Corning Industries in 2000.

Hicks was diagnosed with cancer in 2000. He died from complications of cancer and a stroke on August 3, 2004, at his home in Boston. He was 61 years old.

References

Citations

^ "Coleman Hicks". Retrieved August 6, 2020.

Bibliography

Government offices
Preceded by Togo D. West, Jr.	General Counsel of the Navy May 25, 1979 – January 13, 1981	Succeeded by Walter T. Skallerup, Jr.

[1] "Coleman Hicks". Retrieved August 6, 2020.

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