Jean Constance Hamilton

Personal

Birthday: 
1945
Birthplace: 
St. Louis, MO
Race or Ethnicity: 
White
Gender: 
Female
Prior Employment: 

Attorney, Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice, 1971-73
Assistant U.S. attorney, Eastern District of Missouri, 1973-1978
Corporate counsel, Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, St. Louis, Missouri, 1978-1981
Judge, Circuit Court of Missouri, Twenty-Second Judicial Circuit, 1982-1988
Adjunct professor, St. Louis University Law School, 1986-1987, 1989
Adjunct professor, Washington University School of Law, 1987-1992
Judge, Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, 1988-1990

Education

Name of School: 
Wellesley College
Degree: 
B.A.
Degree Year: 
1968
Name of School - Second: 

Washington University in St. Louis School of Law

An education at Washington University School of Law provides the opportunity to combine outstanding teaching and a mastery of the fundamentals necessary for the practice of law.

Degree - Second: 
J.D.
Degree Year - Second: 
1971
Name of School - Third: 

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 - Third: 
LL.M.
Degree Year - Third: 
1982

Judicial Career

Court Name: 
U. S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri
Court Name: 

Missouri Eastern District Court

President Nominating: 
George H.W. Bush
Party Affiliation of President: 
Republican
Commission Date: 
10/1/1990
Retirement from Active Service: 
7/1/2013