Herschel Whitfield Arant (July 18, 1887 – January 14, 1941), frequently known as H. W. Arant, was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and former dean of the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law.
Herschel Whitfield Arant
Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals
Born 1887 in Church Hill, AL
Died 1941
FJC ID: 54
- Gender
- Male
- Race
- White
Prior employment
- Ohio State UniversityDean of the law school/professor of law · 1928–1939
Dean of the law school/professor of law · 1922–1928
Assistant professor of law · 1920–1922- Private practice, Atlanta, Georgia1915–1920
- Lamar School of Law, Emory UniversityProfessor of law · 1916–1920
Appointments
1939–1941 · Appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democratic)Term ended: Death
Education
- LL.B. · 1915
- Yale UniversityM.A. · 1912
- Yale UniversityB.A. · 1911
- University of AlabamaB.S. · 1910