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Rehnquist married Natalie "Nan" Cornell on August 29, 1953. The daughter of a San Diego physician, she worked as an analyst on the CIA's Austria desk before their marriage. [ 134 ] The couple had three children: James, a lawyer and college basketball player; Janet , a lawyer; and Nancy, an editor (including of her father's books) and homemaker.
While working as an RA in the summer of 1951, Rehnquist met Natalie “Nan” Cornell, an undergraduate who was attending summer school. After he graduated from the Law School—first in his class—Rehnquist went to Washington, D.C., in early 1952 to serve as a clerk for Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson.
Oct 17, 1991 · The wife of William H. Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Natalie C. Rehnquist died on October 17, 1991 after a long struggle with ovarian cancer. She was 62 and died at the National Institutes of Health said Supreme Court spokesperson Toni House. A native of San Diego, California, she...
Oct 31, 2018 · The future chief justice of the United States was proposing to the woman who, years later, would become the first woman to serve on the nation's highest...
- Nina Totenberg
Oct 31, 2018 · Rehnquist’s proposal wound up being a mere footnote for both of them—in 1953, he married Nan Cornell, whom he described late in life as the only woman he ever loved. Still, O’Connor’s son called...
In 1953, following his clerkship, he married Natalie (“Nan”) Cornell, whom he had met at Stanford, and the couple had a son and two daughters. Rehnquist went to work for a law firm in Phoenix, choosing that city for its climate, both meteorological and political.
Oct 31, 2018 · Before he began dating Nan Cornell, the woman who would become his wife in 1953, Rehnquist proposed marriage to a Stanford Law School classmate. Her name was Sandra Day, NPR reports.
