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Jan 29, 1918 Goodhue, Minnesota, United States Died on 22 Jun 2010 (aged 92)
U.S. Army ranger, politician, attorney, and judge
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About Gerald Heaney
- Gerald William Heaney (January 29, 1918 – June 22, 2010) served for nearly forty years as a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, from his appointment by President Lyndon B.
- Johnson in November 1966 until his full retirement in August 2006.
- Heaney's career in public service began in 1941, upon graduation from law school.
- He soon enlisted in the United States Army, volunteered for the United States Rangers, and soon became a second lieutenant in the 2nd Ranger Battalion.
- Heaney's endurance as a judge was related to his endurance as a Ranger; of the hundreds of members of the Second Ranger Battalion who landed at Normandy on the early hours of D-Day, Heaney was one of only three still on the front lines with the Rangers on VE Day.
- Between the end of World War II and his appointment to the federal bench, he rewrote the Free State of Bavaria's labor laws, and was a valued political advisor and organizer for several liberal Democratic politicians, including Hubert Humphrey, Adlai Stevenson, Orville Freeman, Eugene McCarthy, and Walter Mondale.
- As an appellate court judge, Heaney typically favored broad interpretations of the Bill of Rights and civil rights, labor and employment rights statutes.
