33 Yrs of Rehnquist Papers Donated to Stanford

Papers covering the 33 years that the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist spent on the U.S. Supreme Court, including correspondence with fellow justices, have been donated to his alma mater.

Rehnquist's family released the papers to the Hoover Institution Archives at Stanford University the San Francisco Chronicle reports.

In addition to in-chamber correspondence, the collection also includes case-related materials, speeches, personal correspondence, drafts and notes on a number of his books, the institution announced in a press release Wednesday.

The collection will remain closed until processed by archivists. At that point, the institute intends to make sections of the collection available for researchers.

Some of Rehnquist's papers, memorabilia and artifacts, have been sent to the Rehnquist Center at the University of Arizona.

Rehnquist earned his undergrad and law degrees at Stanford and later was a member of the Hoover Board of Overseers. He was appointed to the high court by Richard Nixon in 1972, and made chief justice by Ronald Reagan in 1986. He died in 2005.