Background
Shefelman, Harold S. was born on April 15, 1898 in New York City. Son of Joseph and Henrietta (Lovett) Shefelman.
Shefelman, Harold S. was born on April 15, 1898 in New York City. Son of Joseph and Henrietta (Lovett) Shefelman.
Bachelor of Philosophy, Brown University, 1920. Bachelor of Laws, Yale, 1925. Doctor of Laws, Seattle Pacific University.
Doctor of Laws, Brown University.
Since practiced in, Seattle. Member Roberts, Shefelman, Lawrence, Gay & Moch, until 1978. Counsel Roberts and Shefelman, from 1978.
Lecturer School Law, University Washington, 1930-1957. Member Seattle City Planning Commission, 1948-1971, chairman, 1950-1952, 54-56. Member interim committee nation-wide conference on metropolitan area problems, Lansing, Michigan, 1957.
Chairman Washington Child Welfare Advisory Committee, 1949-1951. Member Washington State Board Education, 1951-1957. Chairman Washington delegation White House Conference on Education, 1955.
Chairman committee State Government Organization, 1951-1955. Executive committee Seattle Health and Welfare Council, 1950-1952. Chairman State Citizens' Committee (survey state's public welfare problems), 1949-1950, Seattle Civic Center Commission, 1956-1972.
President Seattle Municipal League, 1956-1958. Member advisory council Bonneville Power Authority, 1940-1945.
Member council National Municipal League, 1955-1975, Governor's Constitutional Revision Commission, 1968-1969. Chairman Washington State Tax Advisory Council, 1957-1959. Board regents University Washington, 1957-1975, past president.
Trustee emeritus Brown University. Trustee Pacific Science Center Foundation, also president, chairman. Honorary life member executive committee, past vice president Yale Law School Association.
Trustee Century 21 Exposition Served with United States Army, World War I. Fellow American Bar Foundation. Member American Bar Association (house of deals 1938-1940, 54-56, past council on legal education, council municipal law section 1948-1961, chairman section 1952-1954), Washington Bar Association, Seattle Bar Association (president 1937-1938), American Law Institute (life member), American Judicature Society (past director), American Society Planning Officials (director 1957-1962, president 1959-1961), Municipal Forum (New York City), Academy Political Science, Order of Coif, Phi Beta Kappa Associates, Phi Beta Kappa. Clubs: Mason (Seattle) (Shriner), College (Seattle), Washington Athletic (Seattle).
Son of; married Madolene Whitehead, Aug 12, 1924 (deceased June 1955). Children– Thomas Whitehead, June Henderson. Married Sylvia Rogers, 1958 (divorced).
Married Nona Proctor Church, 1977.