Herschel Whitfield Arant

Personal

Birthday: 
7/18/1887
Birthplace: 
Church Hill, AL
Date of Death: 
1/14/1941
Race or Ethnicity: 
White
Gender: 
Male
Prior Employment: 

Private practice, Atlanta, Georgia, 1915-1920
Professor of law, Lamar School of Law, Emory University, 1916-1920
Assistant professor of law, Yale University, 1920-1922
Dean of the law school/professor of law, University of Kansas, 1922-1928
Dean of the law school/professor of law, Ohio State University, 1928-1939

Education

Name of School: 
University of Alabama
Degree: 
B.S.
Degree Year: 
1910
Name of School - Second: 
Yale University
Degree - Second: 
B.A.
Degree Year - Second: 
1911
Name of School - Third: 
Yale University
Degree - Third: 
M.A.
Degree Year - Third: 
1912
Name of School - Fourth: 

Yale University Law School

Located in New Haven, Connecticut, Yale Law School, is one of the world's premier law schools. It offers an unmatched environment of excellence and educational intimacy in the form of world renowned faculty, small classes, limitless opportunities for clinical training, and strong encouragement of public service. Small by design, our impact on the world is measured by its accomplished graduates and its ongoing scholarship and outreach through 17 centers and projects.

Degree - Fourth: 
LL.B.
Degree Year - Fourth: 
1915

Judicial Career

Court Name: 
U. S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Court Name: 

Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals

President Nominating: 
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Party Affiliation of President: 
Democratic
Commission Date: 
3/4/1939
Termination Date: 
1/14/1941
Termination Reason: 
Death