Emett Clay Choate

Personal

Birthday: 
5/21/1891
Birthplace: 
Columbus, OH
Date of Death: 
8/14/1974
Race or Ethnicity: 
White
Gender: 
Male
Prior Employment: 

U.S. Army major, 1917-1918
Private practice, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 1917-1921
Private practice, New York City, 1922-1925
Private practice, Miami, Florida, 1925-1954

Education

Name of School: 

Indiana University Maurer School of Law - Bloomington

For more than 150 years, the Indiana University School of Law has provided top-flight, transformative legal education. With just over 750 students, drawn from more than 100 undergraduate schools and from three continents, Indiana Law retains a distinctive sense of collegiality and community in the stimulating, cosmopolitan college town of Bloomington, Ind.

Degree: 
LL.B.
Degree Year: 
1914

Judicial Career

Court Name: 
U. S. District Court, Southern District of Florida
Court Name: 

Florida Southern District Court

President Nominating: 
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Party Affiliation of President: 
Republican
Commission Date: 
7/20/1954
Retirement from Active Service: 
1/31/1965
Termination Date: 
8/14/1974
Termination Reason: 
Death