(b. 12 Oct. 1921, Cranston, R.I.), reporter of decisions, 1979–1987. Lind received his A.B. from Princeton in 1943. His military service began during World War II and continued afterward in the Counterintelligence Corps and in Military Intelligence. Lind graduated from Harvard Law School in 1949 and practiced law in Rhode Island until 1957.
From 1957 to 1973 Lind served in various editorial capacities for the Lawyers Co‐operative Publishing Company of Rochester, New York. His responsibilities included editing the Lawyers' Edition of the U.S. Supreme Court Reports, and the U.S. Supreme Court Digest. Lind became assistant reporter of decisions of the Supreme Court in 1973. While assistant reporter he prepared an updated style manual for the Court and helped select a computerized printing system for producing draft opinions and page proofs of the United States Reports, replacing the former “hot lead” system of printing.
During his tenure as reporter of decisions, Lind edited or coedited volumes 440–479 of the U.S. Reports. In 1982 he founded the Association of Reporters of Judicial Decisions, a group of appellate reporters from jurisdictions across North America. Upon Lind's retirement as reporter, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist paid tribute to him, noting that his editorial burden was “not an enviable task” and that “Mr. Lind has performed his duties with great success.”
After retiring as reporter, Lind was consultant for the University of Chicago Manual of Legal Citation (1989) and was a member of the committee sponsored by the American Bar Association that prepared the Judicial Opinion Writing Manual (1991). He also continued part‐time editorial work for the Lawyers Co‐operative Company and for the Supreme Court.
— Francis Helminski
