Background
Brimmer, Clarence Addison was born on July 11, 1922 in Rawlins, Wyoming, United States. Son of Clarence Addison and Geraldine (Zingsheim) Brimmer.
Brimmer, Clarence Addison was born on July 11, 1922 in Rawlins, Wyoming, United States. Son of Clarence Addison and Geraldine (Zingsheim) Brimmer.
Bachelor, University of Michigan, 1944; Juris Doctor, University of Michigan, 1947.
Received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, at which he was the editor of the university"s The Michigan Daily. He received a Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan Law School in 1947 and to Rawlins to join his father"s law firm, &, through which he gained experience as a trial attorney. He was in private practice in Rawlins from 1947 to 1971.
He was the state chairman of the Wyoming Republican Party from 1967 to 1971, when he was appointed by Governor Stanley K. Hathaway as the state attorney general, a post he filled until 1974. was a Republican candidate in the 1974 Wyoming gubernatorial primary.
He polled nearly a quarter of the Republican vote, a strong fourth-place finish, but he lost the nomination to trucking executive Dick Jones of Cody, who in turn was defeated in the general election by a Democrat, Edgar Herschler. was in private practice in Rawlins once again in 1974, while he also ran for governor, and was briefly the United States Attorney for the District of Wyoming in 1975. On July 23, 1975 United States President Gerald R. Ford, Junior. nominated to a seat on the Wyoming District Court vacated by Ewing Thomas Kerr. was confirmed by the United States Senate on September 15, 1975 and received his commission of office the following day.
He served as chief judge from 1986 to 1992 and assumed senior status on September 27, 2006, at which time Nancy Freudenthal, wife of Democrat former Governor Dave Freudenthal assumed the seat. He retired from the bench in June 2013.
In 2008 ordered a new trial for James Harlow, a Wyoming State Penitentiary inmate who had been on death row after conviction of murdering a prison officer in 1997. said that Harlow had been denied a fair trial in the state court because his public defender had been made to fear he would be dismissed for representing Harlow and for seeking more state revenues for the public defenders office.
"s son Philip became a federal judge in Colorado in 2008, an appointee of President George West. Bush. Clarence died at the age of 91 in Boulder, Colorado.
Secretary Rawlins Board Public Utilities, 1954-1966. Republican gubernatorial candidate, 1974. Trustee Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, 1963-1975.
With United States Army Air Force, 1945-1946. Member American Bar Association, Wyoming Bar Association, Laramie County Bar Association, Carbon County Bar Association, American Judicature Society, Masons, Shriners, Rotary.
Married Emily O. Docken, August 2, 1953. Children: Geraldine Ann, Philip Andrew, Andrew Howard, Elizabeth Annual.