The Honorable Randy J. Holland, Justice of the Supreme Court of
Delaware
Justice Randy J. Holland was the youngest person
ever nominated to serve on the Supreme Court of
Delaware. He was first appointed by Gov.
Michael N. Castle in 1986 and was recently re-appointed in March,
2011 for an unprecedented third twelve-year term.
Justice Holland graduated from Swarthmore College and the
University of Pennsylvania Law School,
cumlaude
, where he received the Loughlin Award for legal
ethics. Justice Holland received a Master of Laws in the
Judicial Process from the University of Virginia Law
School.
Justice Holland is a past national President and Trustee of the
American Inns of Court Foundation. He co-chairs the national
Advisory Committee to the American Judicature Society's Center for
Judicial Ethics. Justice Holland is a member of the American
Law Institute. He serves on the American Judicature Society's
Board of Directors, and the ABA Appellate Judges Conference's
Executive Committee. He chaired the American Bar Association
National Joint Committee on Lawyer Regulation. Justice
Holland has also served on the ABA Presidential Commission on Fair
and Impartial Courts, the Standing Committee on Client Protection
and the Judicial Division's Ethics and Professionalism
Committee.
Justice Holland has received numerous awards, including two
national awards from the American Inns of Court to include the 2014
Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Award for Professionalism and Ethics, and the
A. Sherwin Christiansen Award for his outstanding leadership to the
Inns of Court in 2007. In
addition he was the recipient of the 2012 First State Distinguished
Service Award, the 2011 Dwight D. Opperman Award for Judicial
Excellence, the 2009 James Wilson Award from the University of
Pennsylvania School of Law, the 2003 American Judicature Society's
Herbert Harley Award, and the 1992 Judge of the Year Award from the
National Child Support Enforcement Association. In 2004, he
was elected to be an Honorable Master of the Bench by Lincoln's Inn
in London. Chief Justices Rehnquist and Roberts appointed
Justice Holland as the state judge member of the Federal Judicial
Conference Advisory Committee on Appellate Rules.
Justice Holland has written, co-authored, or edited nine books:
Magna Carta: Muse & Mentor (2014);
Delaware's Destiny Determined By Lewes
(2013); Delaware Corporation Law, Selected
Cases (2011 Chinese (Taiwan) only);
State Constitutional Law, the Modern
Experience, co-author (West 2010);
Middle Temple Lawyers and the American
Revolution, co-author (Thomson-West 2007);
Appellate Practice and Procedure,
co-author (West 2005); The Delaware
Constitution: A Reference Guide (Greenwood
Press 2002); Delaware Supreme Court: Golden
Anniversary (2001), co-editor; and
The Delaware Constitution of 1897 - The First One Hundred
Years, co-editor (1997). He has also
published several law review articles, primarily dealing with
judicial ethics and legal history.