Charles Wycliffe Joiner

Judge Charles Wycliffe Joiner

Personal

Birthday:

1916

Birthplace:

Maquoketa, IA

Race or Ethnicity:

White

Gender:

Male

Prior Employment:

Private practice, Des Moines, Iowa, 1939-1947
U.S. Army lieutenant, Air Corps, 1943-1945
Faculty, University of Michigan Law School, 1947-1968, 1974-1984; associate dean, 1960-1968; acting dean, 1965-1966; lecturer in law, 1974-1984
Alderman, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1955-1959
Director of research and drafting, Michigan constitutional convention, 1961-1962
Dean and professor of law, Wayne State University, 1967-1972

Education

Name of School:

University of Iowa

Degree:

B.A.

Degree Year:

1937

Name of School - Second:

University of Iowa College of Law

The highly competitive practice of law has a way of shaping a person. If you let it, it can and it will make you into a thing;...That thing the practice of law would make of you is ultimately what becomes of the once passionate, once idealistic, once hopeful, would-be world changer, who has become eroded by the routine, battering current of the practice, and who has failed to cultivate the ground cover that resists erosion of soul." For those of us in the world of work, whether as lawyers or not, tending to that initial force that drew us toward the study of law should be part of our thoughts and periodic reflections.

Degree - Second:

J.D.

Degree Year - Second:

1939

Judicial Career

Court Name:

U. S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan

Court Name:

Michigan Eastern District Court

President Nominating:

Richard M. Nixon

Party Affiliation of President:

Republican

Commission Date:

6/9/1972

Retirement from Active Service:

8/15/1984