Admitted
1958, Wyoming, U.S. District Court, District of Wyoming, U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court. (Not admitted in Colorado)
Law School
University of Wyoming, J.D., 1958
Law School Graduation Year
1958
College
University of Wyoming, B.S., 1954
Memberships
Park County (Founding Member) and American Bar Associations; Wyoming State Bar (Member, Disciplinary Committee, 1971); Wyoming Trial Lawyers Association (Founding Member); The Association of Trial Lawyers of America.
Biographical
Author: Right in the Old Gazoo: A Lifetime of Scrapping the Press, William Morrow and Co., New York City, 1996. Visiting Lecturer, Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics and Public Policy, 1997-1998. Director, Institute of Politics, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 1998—. Member, 1965-1977, Wyoming State Legislature, 1965-1978, Assistant Majority Leader, Majority Leader and Speaker Pro Tem, Wyoming State Legislature. Member: U.S. Senate, 1979-1997; Finance Committee, 1994-1996; Assistant Majority Leader, 1984-1994; Chairman: Subcommittee of Immigration and Refugee Policy of Senate Judiciary Committee, 1980-1984; Nuclear Regulation Subcommittee of Environmental and Public Works, 1980-1984; Veterans Affairs Committee, 1980-1984, 1994-1996. Assistant Attorney General, State of Wyoming, 1959. City Attorney of Cody, 1959-1969. Partner: Firm of Simpson & Simpson (Milward L. Simpson); Simpson Kepler & Simpson, 1960-1978. Chairman of the Board, Buffalo Bill Historical Society, Cody, Wyoming. Member: Board of Trustees, Folger-Shakespeare Library; Board of Regents, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1994-1996; Board of Trustees, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 1996; Board of Trustees, Teton Music Festival, Jackson, Wyoming; Screen Actors' Guild, 1994—; Board of Directors: I.D.S.- American Express, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1997—; Pacificorp and Energy Corp., 1997—; International Board of Directors, Bio-Gen Corporation, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1997—. (Also at Washington, D.C.; Cody, Wyoming; and Lafayette, Colorado Offices)
Military
U.S. Army, 1st Lieutenant, 2nd Armored Division and 5th Division (U.S. Armed Forces, Germany)