Honorific-Prefix: | The Honorable |
William H. Dieterich | |
Office: | Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court |
Term Start: | January 1, 1959 |
Term End: | July 23, 1964 |
Predecessor: | Emmert L. Wingert |
Successor: | Nathan Heffernan |
Birth Name: | William Herbert Dieterich |
Birth Date: | 18 December 1897 |
Birth Place: | Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
Death Place: | Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
Restingplace: | Pleasant Hill Cemetery Hartford, Wisconsin |
Party: | Republican |
Mother: | Martha (Wolf) Dieterich |
Father: | William V. Dieterich |
Profession: | lawyer, judge |
Allegiance: | United States |
Serviceyears: | 1917 - 1919 |
Unit: | 120th Field Artillery |
Battles: | World War I |
William Herbert Dieterich (December 18, 1897 - July 23, 1964) was an attorney and jurist from Wisconsin. He was a justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court from 1959 until his death in 1964.[1]
He was born at his father's farm in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. He enlisted in the Wisconsin National Guard in 1917 during World War I. He helped found the American Legion.
After the war was over, he went to college at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of Montana and later to law school at Marquette University Law School. He passed his bar exam in 1923 to become a lawyer.
He served as a trial attorney in Milwaukee and Washington Counties for 36 years. He lost several elections for Wisconsin's Attorney General and Wisconsin Supreme Court.
Dieterich was first elected to the Wisconsin Supreme Court in 1958, when he defeated Emmert L. Wingert in 1958 to become a Justice. In 1961, he convinced the Wisconsin Legislature to employ law clerks for the Supreme Court.[2]
He had a son William H. Dieterich III with his wife Kathryn Block. Dieterich died on July 23, 1964.
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