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Leon Jaworski
Lawyer and Writer
President of the American Bar Association 1971-72
Leon Jaworski was born in Waco, Texas and studied law at Baylor University and George Washington University.
As a colonel in the Judge Advocate General's Department during Worid War II, he served as Trial Judge Advocate in major military trials in the United States, and later served as Chief of the War Crimes Trials Section of the U.S. Army in the European Theatre, where he personally prosecuted the first major war crimes.
He has been honored with the Legion of Merit, and holds no less than ten honorary degrees in law and juridical science.
In 1971-72 he served as President of the American Bar Association, and is former president of the State Bar of Texas, the American College of Trial Lawyers, the Houston Bar Association, and the Texas Civil Judical Council.
He has been special assistant to the U.S. Attorney General (1962-65), special counsel to the Attorney General of Texas (1963-65 and 1972-73), and adviser to President Johnson (1964-69). Currently [1976] he is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of The Southwestern Legal Foundation, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the American Judicature Society, Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, and Member of the American Law Institute.
His articles have appeared in such important publications as the American Bar Journal, the Texas Bar Journal, the Georgia State Bar Journal, and the Journal of the American Judicature Society. He is author of the book After Fifteen Years, a behind-the-scenes account of Nazi war crimes trials.
He lives with his wife, Jeanette, in Houston, Texas.
Biographical Note: "The Right and the Power: The Prosecution of Watergate," Reader's Digest Press, New York, 1976