Walter J. Cummings

Walter Joseph Cummings, Jr. (born September 29, 1916 in Chicago , Illinois ; † April 24, 1999 there ) was an American lawyer , judge and United States Solicitor General .

biography

After attending the St. Albans School in Washington, DC and the Chicago Latin School , the son of a banker studied at Yale University and graduated in 1937 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). He then completed a postgraduate degree in law at the Law School of Harvard University in 1940 with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.). In 1940 he was admitted to the bar in the state of Illinois.

Immediately thereafter, he moved to the United States Department of Justice , where he initially worked in the office of the Solicitor General and then from 1944 to 1946 as a special assistant to the Attorney General . In 1946 he became a partner in the law firm Sidley & Austin. In December 1952 he was appointed Solicitor General by US President Harry S. Truman . However, he held this office for just under four months until March 1953. He then returned to Sidley & Austin as a partner, where he worked until 1966.

In 1966 he was appointed as a judge at the 7th Federal Court of Appeals, based in Chicago. Most recently Walter Cummings was chairman ( chief judge ) of this court from 1981 until his death in 1999 .

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