Henderson M. Somerville
Judge
Why Is Henderson M. Somerville Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Henderson Middleton Somerville was a Professor, Associate Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court and a Member of the Board of General Appraisers. Education and career Somerville was born on March 23, 1837, in Madison County, Virginia, but his family moved to Alabama in his infancy. He received a Juris Doctor from the Georgetown College of Kentucky and Southwestern University of Tennessee. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1856 from University of Alabama. He received a Master of Laws degree in 1859 from the Cumberland School of Law . Somerville entered private practice in Memphis, Tennessee from 1859 to 1862. He was the editor of Memphis Appeal from 1859 to 1862. He was an associate professor at the University of Alabama from 1862 to 1865. He worked in private practice in Tuscaloosa, Alabama from 1865 to 1873. He became Chair of constitutional, statutory and common law at the University of Alabama in 1873, effectively establishing the University of Alabama School of Law, and continued to hold this position until 1890. He served as an associate justice of the Alabama Supreme Court from 1872 to 1890.
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