James Clark McReynolds
Personal
Secretary, U.S. Sen. Howell E. Jackson, Tennessee, 1884
Private practice, Nashville, Tennessee, 1884-1903
Professor, Vanderbilt University, 1900-1903
Assistant attorney general, U.S. Department of Justice, 1903-1907, 1910-1911
Private practice, New York City, 1907-1910, 1911-1913
Attorney General of the United States, 1913-1914
Education
University of Virginia School of Law
Virginia is justly famous for its collegial environment that bonds students and faculty, and student satisfaction is consistently cited as among the highest in American law schools. Intellectual challenges are met in a spirit of cooperation. Small first-year sections promote individual inquiry while providing support and friendship. Students learn together, reading each other's work and freely sharing course outlines and other materials, confidently relying on the nation's oldest student-run Honor System to maintain the highest ethical standards.
Judicial Career
Allotment as Circuit Justice:
Seventh Circuit, October 19, 1914-October 29, 1916
Fifth Circuit, October 30, 1916-February 18, 1923
Sixth Circuit, November 15, 1922-January 31, 1941