Who is Lewis Powell from The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court and what is their importance?

Powell was a sixty-four-year-old Richmond attorney when Nixon appointed him to the Supreme Court. Powell did not want the nomination because of his age but the Virginian was a good candidate. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Washington and Lee College and then attended Law School there. He attended graduate school at Harvard and had served as President of the ABA and the American College of Trial Lawyers and held various other positions.