Cyril Chesnut Means

Background

Means, Cyril Chesnut was born on December 21, 1918 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Cyril Chesnut and Annette Thayer (Handley) Means.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Harvard University, 1938, Master of Laws, 1948. Juris Doctor, Wayne State University, 1941.

Career

Bar, 1941; law secretary to Justice Henry M. Butzel, Michigan Supreme Court, 1941-1942. Associate professor of law Detroit College Law, 1946-1947. Assistant professor.law Stanford University, 1948-1950.

Legal adviser Office of the United States High Commissioner for Germany, 1950-1954. Arbitration director New York Stock Exchange, 1955-1956. Executive vice president, director Technology Studies, Inc., 1957-1986, senior vice president, since 1986.

Chairman of the board of trustees Trent School, New York City, 1963-1964, dean, 1964-1965. Projects coordinator Western Australia Development Corporation, 1965-1966. Assistant professor New York.Law School, 1969-1970, associate professor, 1970-1973, professor, 1973-1989, professor emeritus, 1989.

Fellow-in-residence School Theology, U. South, Sewanee, Tennessee, 1990. American co-founder Channel Tunnel Study Group. Member of New York StateGov.'s Commission to Review New York State's Abortion Law, 1968.

Chairman legalcom. National Abortion Rights Action League, 1970-1979. Member of advisory committee population affairs, secretary Department of Health, Education and Welfare, 1973-1977. Member Anglican Church.

Legal adviser American Church Union, 1962-1965. Chairman New York Metropolitan Regional Branch, 1963-1964, lay canon Perth, Western Australia, 1966-1967. Vestryman Church of Resurrection, New York City, 1975-1978, 88-92, warden, 1978-1980.

Counsel on canon law to thevestry, Trinity Cathedral, Newark, St. George's Church, Flushing, New York, and to other ecclesiastical persons and corporations, 1989-1992. Lieutenant United States Naval Reserve, 1942-1946.

Membership

Member American Society International Law, Association Bar City New York, Michigan State Bar, American Bar Association, Selden Society, American Society Legal History.

Connections

Married Rosaline S. Linn, November 8, 1958. Children: Elizabeth Rose Thayer, Annette Thayer, Cyril Chesnut III.

Father:

Cyril Chesnut Means

Mother:

Annette Thayer (Handley) Means

Spouse:

Rosaline S. Linn

child:

Annette Thayer Means

child:

Elizabeth Rose Thayer Means

child:

Cyril Chesnut III Means