short". Timothy L. Hall argued in 2001 that Rutledge's judicial career "was like the unfinished first symphony of a composer who might have gone on to create great masterpieces but who died before they could ever flow from his pen... [H]is steady outpouring of opinions over the course of six years yielded only a tantalizing glimpse of what might have been." See also List of justices of the Supreme Court of the United States List of United States Supreme Court justices by time in office List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Seat 3) United States Supreme Court cases during the Stone Court United States Supreme Court cases during the Vinson Court Notes References Further reading 1894 births 1949 deaths 20th-century American judges American legal scholars American people of Scotch-Irish descent Colorado lawyers Indiana University alumni Judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit Deans of law schools in the United States Legal educators Missouri Democrats People from Breckinridge County, Kentucky United States court of appeals judges appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt United States federal judges appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States University of Colorado alumni University of Colorado Law School faculty University of Iowa College of Law faculty University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni Washington University in St. Louis faculty