Press Release-06-089, NRC Appoints E. Roy Hawkens Chief Administrative Judge
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| Issue date: | 06/30/2006 |
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NRC NEWS U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Office of Public Affairs Telephone: 301/415-8200 Washington, D.C. 20555-0001 E-mail: opa@nrc.gov Web Site: http://www.nrc.gov No.06-089 June 30, 2006 NRC APPOINTS E. ROY HAWKENS CHIEF ADMINSTRATIVE JUDGE The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has selected Administrative Judge E. Roy Hawkens for the position of Chief Administrative Judge of the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel (ASLBP),
effective July 1, 2006. Judge Hawkens, who has been a full-time Administrative Judge on the ASLBP since September 2004, will replace Chief Administrative Judge G. Paul Bollwerk III, who has resigned from that position effective June 30, 2006.
Chief Judge Bollwerk has agreed to continue as an Administrative Judge on the Panel, and the Commission has approved his reassignment to the position of Administrative Judge. A full-time legal member of the Panel since 1991, Judge Bollwerk has served as Chief Administrative Judge since January 1999.
Judge Hawkens received a Bachelor of Science degree from the United States Naval Academy in 1975. After completing Naval Nuclear Power School, Judge Hawkens served as a nuclear engineering officer aboard a fleet ballistic nuclear submarine and as a radiological controls officer aboard a submarine tender. After leaving active duty Naval service, he earned a law degree from the College of William and Mary Marshall-Wythe School of Law in 1983, where he was Order of the Coif and managing editor of the William & Mary Law Review. Thereafter, Judge Hawkens clerked for Judge Edward A. Tamm of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. In 1984, Judge Hawkens joined the United States Department of Justice, where, as a member of the Appellate Staff of the Civil Division, he represented the federal government in a wide range of cases until he joined the ASLBP in 2004.