Monroe G. McKay

Personal

Birthday: 
1928
Birthplace: 
Huntsville, UT
Race or Ethnicity: 
White
Gender: 
Male
Prior Employment: 

U.S. Marine Corps, 1946-1948
Law clerk, Hon. Jesse A. Udall, Arizona Supreme Court, 1960-1961
Private practice, Phoenix, Arizona, 1961-1966, 1968-1974
Director, Peace Corps, Malawi, Africa, 1966-1968
Faculty, Brigham Young University Law School, 1974-1977; associate professor, 1974-1976; professor, 1976-1977

Education

Name of School: 
Brigham Young University
Degree: 
B.S.
Degree Year: 
1957
Name of School - Second: 

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 - Second: 
J.D.
Degree Year - Second: 
1960

Judicial Career

Court Name: 
U. S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Court Name: 

Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals

President Nominating: 
Jimmy Carter
Party Affiliation of President: 
Democratic
Commission Date: 
12/1/1977
Retirement from Active Service: 
12/31/1993