Whereas William D. Ruckelshaus was born on July 24, 1932, in Indianapolis, Indiana, the son of Marion Doyle and John K. Ruckelshaus; Whereas Mr. Ruckelshaus served for two years in the United States Army, as a drill sergeant at Fort Lewis in Tacoma, Washington; Whereas Mr. Ruckelshaus graduated from Princeton University with an A.B. (cum laude) in 1957 and from Harvard Law School with an LL.B. in 1960; Whereas, in his early career, Mr. Ruckelshaus served as deputy attorney general of Indiana, where he helped draft the State’s first air pollution control laws and obtained court orders to prohibit industries and municipalities from polluting the State’s water supply; Whereas Mr. Ruckelshaus was a longtime resident of Seattle, having moved his family to the Seattle area in 1975 to serve as Vice President of Legal Affairs for Washington State-based timber company Weyerhaeuser, and became a leading Northwest voice for the environment; Whereas, in 1969, former President Richard Nixon appointed Mr. Ruckelshaus assistant attorney general in charge of the Civil Division of the Department of Justice; Whereas, in 1970, President Nixon appointed Mr. Ruckelshaus to serve as the founding administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which he returned to lead again from 1983–1985; Whereas Mr. Ruckelshaus helped build the EPA from the ground up, devising its enforcement strategy and later developing air-pollution controls, holding companies and cities responsible for water pollution and banning the use of dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) for domestic agriculture, a major factor in the survival and rebounding of the bald eagle; Whereas Mr. Ruckelshaus was named by Time magazine in 2008 as among the best Cabinet secretaries in United States history for his work focusing the EPA’s mission and drawing significant public support and visibility for the agency