In Fond Remembrance: David Hollister Rogers, India Peace Corps Director 1968-1973

The extensive public and legal service career of David Hollister Rogers (1929 - 2017) included five years of service with the Peace Corps as Country Director of India from 1968 to 1973. A graduate of Harvard University and Harvard Law School, David served in the U.S. Army in post-war Japan. He next moved to California, clerked for a judge on the 9th Circuit Court, and then spent ten years practicing law in Oakland. Following his Peace Corps service, David went to the Northern Marianas Islands to chair the Micronesian Claims Commission, established by Congress to validate war claims by Micronesians who lost property or loved ones during World War II. He ended his career in Washington as chief counsel of the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission. Upon his retirement, David returned to the west, where he volunteered with Legal Services of Northern California. In 1994, he was recognized by the State Bar of California as its pro bono attorney of the year.

Obituary link is here.

Comments

[Andy Elliott]

First of all, my sincere condolences to the Hollister family. I thought it was amazing to see some of the similarities between Mr. Hollister, and my father, David H. Elliott, who preceded David Hollister as Peace Corps director India. Both born in Hempsted, NY in the same year. Both died in 2017, within one month of each other.