A single lawyer can move between distinct roles in the judicial system

Evidence

Four years after his elevation to the U.S. Court of Appeals by President John Kennedy, President Lyndon Johnson appointed him solicitor general, the government’s chief advocate before the Supreme Court. As the nation’s first African-American solicitor general, he won several important civil rights victories, including a Supreme Court ruling upholding the constitutionality of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. By the time President Johnson appointed him to the Supreme Court in 1967, Marshall had argued 32 cases before that Court, winning 29 of them. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 889

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Lawyers act as client delegates or as trustees for assumed group goals — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 895; Lawyers pursue client aims either as delegates or as trustees with broader goals — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 608; Britain divides lawyers into barristers and solicitors with distinct training — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 646