After leaving the Justice Department, Ruckelshaus returned to the private sector and the practice of law, serving for a time as the Senior Vice-President of Legal Affairs of Weyerhaeuser.
In 1983, with the EPA in crisis due to mass resignations over the mishandling of the Superfund project, President Ronald Reagan appointed Ruckelshaus to serve as interim director, a position he held through most of the following year.
William Doyle Ruckelshaus (born July 24, 1932) is an attorney and civil servant in the United States.
In a 1973 event known as the "Saturday Night Massacre", Ruckelshaus and his boss, Elliot Richardson, famously resigned their positions within the Justice Department rather than obey an order from President Richard Nixon to fire the Watergate special prosecutor, Archibald Cox, who was investigating official misconduct on the part of the president and his aides.
Ruckelshaus was appointed by President Bush to serve on the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy, mandated by the Oceans Act of 2000 (Public Law 106-256), authorized by Congress and appointed by the President.
Ruckelshaus has been careful to excuse himself from any area of EPA that might create a conflict of interest with his prior activities.
Ruckelshaus was born in Indianapolis in 1932 and was graduated cum laude from Princeton University in 1957.
Surely a part of the reason Ruckelshaus elected to leave Seattle--a city to which he and Jill had become attached--was a genuine affection for EPA and its employees and a sense of pride in the agency's accomplishments.
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