Word: mcgowan
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Dates: during 1981-1981
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...described her as a painstakingly careful attorney and a judge who ran her courtroom with taut discipline and a clear disdain for lawyers who had not done their homework. "She handled her work with a certain meticulousness, an eye for legal detail," recalled Phoenix Lawyer John Frank. Added John McGowan, another Phoenix attorney: "She's a very conscientious, very careful lawyer." Some defense lawyers, however, found O'Connor's strict demeanor on the bench so intimidating that they dubbed her "the bitch queen...
...compensation, divorce settlements and tort actions, see her in the mold of judges who exercise "judicial restraint." "She tends to be a literalist with acute respect for statutes," said Frank O'Connor's colleagues consider her decisions crisp and well written. "Mercifully brief and cogent," said McGowan. "Clear, lucid and orderly," said Frank. But one Supreme Court clerk finds her writing "perfectly ordinary-no different from any other 2,000 judges around the country...
...widely praised, the self-assured woman, who is of medium height and wears such sensible clothes as suits with silk blouses and matching ascots, is neither dull company nor dour. "She never forgets she's a lady-and she'll never let you forget," says Attorney McGowan. Yet Stanford Vice President Joel P. Smith recalls her as "the best dancer I've ever danced with" when he knew her as a member of the Stanford Board of Trustees. She does a nifty two-step and enjoys country music. A superb cook specializing in Mexican dishes, she, along...
...William McGowan, a Harvard M.B.A. who is founder and chairman of MCI Communications Corp., the long-distance telephone company: "They have great ambition, great minds, love to do things, but they just don't have the competence, maturity or capability to do them. They don't understand what is doable, vs. what is idealistic. After they get some experience, a little of the school of hard knocks, then they understand the reality...
Washington, D.C.-based MCI was founded by McGowan, 53, a Harvard Business School-trained entrepreneur who correctly foresaw a market for cheaper long-distance phone service using new microwave technology. In 1972, MCI began selling business clients its telephone service between a few heavy-traffic cities, including New York, St. Louis...