Who is William Rehnquist from The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court and what is their importance?

Rehnquist was appointed to the Court by Nixon in 1971. He had received his undergraduate and masters degrees from Stanford and an additional masters in history from Harvard. He attended Stanford Law and was Editor of the Law Review. He had worked as an attorney in Phoenix for sixteen years and was a Goldwater Republican. In 1969 he became the head of the Office of Legal Counsel and the U.S. Department of Justice. He was forty-seven at the time of his appointment.