http://www.nytimes.com/1992/04/24/news/an-unusual-court-nominee-judging-by-his-family.html
His father, Leonard, like his great-uncle, Louis, was a prominent civil liberties lawyer. His uncle, I. F. Stone, was a legendary liberal muckraker. His sister and only sibling, Kathy, was a militant leftist who is now serving 20 years in prison for the murders of a Brink's guard and two policemen during an armed robbery that was to finance her revolutionary activities.
Michael Boudin, too, has been a nonconformist, but only within his illustrious and iconoclastic family. In a twist that might perplex Mendel and fascinate Freud, Mr. Boudin emerged from one of America's most famous radical households, a place frequented by Benjamin Spock and Paul Robeson, to become a conservative lawyer in Washington, more comfortable representing American Telephone and Telegraph than the International Workers of the World.
For 21 years, Mr. Boudin (pronounced boo-DEAN) practiced regulatory law at Covington & Burling, the powerhouse Washington law firm. He then served in President Reagan's Justice Department and, for one unhappy year, on the Federal District Court in Washington.
In January, overriding a list of candidates from Gov. William F. Weld of Massachusetts, President Bush nominated the 52-year-old Mr. Boudin to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston, a court that by all accounts is better suited to his temperament and erudition than the nitty-gritty of trial court. Complex and Private
the judge who freed him