Joseph Samuel Perry

Judge Joseph Samuel Perry

Personal

Birthday:

11/30/1896

Birthplace:

Carbon Hill, AL

Date of Death:

2/18/1984

Race or Ethnicity:

White

Gender:

Male

Prior Employment:

U.S. Navy, 1918-1919
Private practice, Chicago, Illinois, 1928-1933
Master in chancery, Illinois Circuit Court, Sixteenth Judicial Circuit, 1933-1937
Private practice, Wheaton, Illinois, 1933-1937, 1943-1951
State senator from Forty-First District, Illinois, 1937-1943
Illinois Militia, 1942-1944
Public administrator, DuPage County, Illinois, 1949-1951

Education

Name of School:

University of Alabama

Degree:

A.B.

Degree Year:

1923

Name of School - Second:

University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration

Degree - Second:

M.A.

Degree Year - Second:

1925

Name of School - Third:

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.

Degree - Third:

J.D.

Degree Year - Third:

1927

Judicial Career

Court Name:

U. S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois

Court Name:

Illinois Northern District Court

President Nominating:

Harry S Truman

Party Affiliation of President:

Democratic

Commission Date:

8/22/1951

Retirement from Active Service:

11/29/1971

Termination Date:

2/18/1984

Termination Reason:

Death