Edward Clayton Eicher

Judge Edward Clayton Eicher

Personal

Birthday:

12/16/1878

Birthplace:

Noble, IA

Date of Death:

11/30/1944

Race or Ethnicity:

White

Gender:

Male

Prior Employment:

Assistant registrar, University of Chicago, 1907-1909
Assistant attorney, Iowa District, C.B. & Q. Railroad Company, 1908-1918
Private practice, Washington, Iowa, 1918-1933
U.S. representative from Iowa, 1933-1939
Member, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, 1938-1942

Education

Name of School:

University of Chicago

Degree:

Ph.B.

Degree Year:

1904

Name of School - Second:

University of Chicago Law School

The University of Chicago Law School occupies a unique niche among this country's premier law schools. Located on a residential campus in one of America 's great cities, Chicago offers a rigorous and interdisciplinary professional education that blends the study of law with the humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences. Students, faculty, and staff form a small, tightly knit community devoted to the life of the mind. Learning is participatory. Chicago does not seek to impose a single viewpoint or style of thought on its students. Instead, our faculty exposes students to contrasting views, confident in students' abilities to choose their own paths.

Judicial Career

Court Name:

U. S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Chief Justice

Court Name:

District of Columbia District Court

President Nominating:

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Party Affiliation of President:

Democratic

Commission Date:

1/23/1942

Termination Date:

11/30/1944

Termination Reason:

Death