Heflin to Sign His New Book During Law School Reception

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — The University of Alabama School of Law will host a book signing and reception honoring former Sen. Howell T. Heflin on the publication of his biography.

“Judge in the Senate: Howell Heflin’s Career of Politics and Principle” was written by John Hayman with Clara Ruth Hayman and published by NewSouth Books. Former Sen. Robert Dole wrote the foreword.

The public reception will be held in the Bedsole Moot Court Room at the Law School on Tuesday, Oct. 9, from 4-6 p.m. Heflin will comment on his new biography, his life and his political career as chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court and as a three-term (retired) United States senator.

Heflin, a 1948 graduate of the UA Law School, became chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court in 1971 and distinguished his term with unprecedented accomplishments. He mounted a coordinated campaign for reform in the state legal system. After Heflin was elected to the Senate in 1978, he was frequently at the center of highly publicized events. He was four-time chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Ethics and a longstanding and influential member of the Judiciary Committee. Heflin also contributed to numerous civil rights, crime-control and judicial-reform bills, and in 1987, he served on the special senate committee chosen to investigate the Iran-Contra affair.

Recently, Heflin entrusted the Law School’s Bounds Law Library with his lifetime of memorabilia. The Howell Heflin Conference Room, which displays some of the photographs and political cartoons in the collection, will be open during the reception.