Bob McConnell I am Bob McConnell. This is March 17, 2015. St. Patrick’s Day. O’Connor House So tell us a little bit about your background and how you ended up in the nation’s capital. Bob McConnell Okay, I went to Arizona State University undergraduate, law school. When I finished law school, I went to work in Washington DC for John Rhodes as his legislative assistant. I came back in, I was in the first graduating class of the law school, ’70, spent three years in Washington, came back, started practicing law. Coincidentally, while I was with John Rhodes, there was a meeting. I don’t recall the subject matter that was, it would take place in Phoenix and he could not come and so I came. It was with people from the Arizona State Legislature. Sandra O’Connor was in that meeting, we probably met across the table, that would have been, you know, a group of people. When I came back and I practiced law in Arizona, there was, I had a motion in a case when she was on the Superior Court, that was shifted over to her for me to argue the motion. So I saw her a second time. Again, not socially. Then went back to Washington when, early, February of the Reagan administration, to be Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs. O’Connor House So, that would have been 1980? Bob McConnell 81. February of ’81. O’Connor House Alright, so now fast forward. How did you next interact with Sandra Day O’Connor? Bob McConnell Well, the story really is that