William Hawley Atwell

Personal

Birthday: 
6/9/1869
Birthplace: 
Sparta, WI
Date of Death: 
12/22/1961
Race or Ethnicity: 
White
Gender: 
Male
Prior Employment: 

Private practice, Dallas, Texas, 1891-1898, 1913-1924
U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Texas, 1898-1913

Education

Name of School: 
Southwestern University
Degree: 
A.B., B.S.
Degree Year: 
1889
Name of School - Second: 

University of Texas School of Law

Only a large law school devoted to excellence across the range of modern legal education can offer this diversity. UT manages to do so while at the same time offering students intimate settings for study and recreation. The entering class is divided into eight extracurricular Societies, which become hubs of fun and friendship. The first year curriculum includes small classes offering individual attention, and the upper class curriculum is studded with seminars, colloquia, and clinics. Large class or small, good teaching is the norm. Student satisfaction surveys place Texas at or near the top year after year; our teaching track record is seldom matched by any other law school.

Degree - Second: 
LL.B.
Degree Year - Second: 
1891

Judicial Career

Court Name: 
U. S. District Court, Northern District of Texas
Court Name: 

Texas Northern District Court

President Nominating: 
Warren G. Harding
Party Affiliation of President: 
Republican
Commission Date: 
1/9/1923
Retirement from Active Service: 
12/31/1954
Termination Date: 
12/22/1961
Termination Reason: 
Death