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All his life Stimson Bullitt has belonged to Seattle, with excursions elsewhere that included undergraduate years at Yale and four years in the Navy during World War II. Bullitt is a ninth-generation American lawyer. His first political activity was a letter-writing campaign in 1942 in defense of Japanese Americans. He has taken part in civic affairs, locally and nationally, in the fields of government reorganization, political process reforms, race relations, foreign affairs, and conservation. Among honors he has received, perhaps the best known was his inclusion on Nixon's ?Enemies...

During William L. Dwyer's fifteen-year tenure as a U.S. District Court judge, he presided over many complex and groundbreaking cases. In one of his most controversial rulings, he engaged environmentalists and the timber industry in a heavily publicized and emotionally fraught battle over the territory of the northern spotted owl, ultimately approving the bird for "threatened species" status and forcing the Forest Service to substantially reduce logging in owl-habitat areas.

Before his appointment to the district court in 1987, Dwyer had spent more than thirty years as a trial lawyer,...