Herbert H. McCampbell was born in Tennessee and was living in Knoxville by the 1930s. The 1940 census recorded him in Knoxville as a married attorney at law and identified him as the son of Herbert H. McCampbell and Edna McCampbell. He was associated with Knoxville’s established legal community throughout his civilian career.
McCampbell attended Phillips Exeter Academy and was listed among its alumni in the class of 1923. He subsequently attended Princeton University, where the alumni directory recorded him in the law class of 1926. His education preceded a legal career based in Knoxville, Tennessee.
McCampbell practiced law in Knoxville, Tennessee, becoming associated in 1931 with the firm formed as Green, Webb & McCampbell. By the early 1940s the practice was listed in city directories as Green, Webb, Bass & McCampbell, with offices in the Burwell Building. During World War II he served as a major in the Judge Advocate General’s Department at the headquarters of the Ferrying Division of the Army Air Forces Air Transport Command in Cincinnati, Ohio. He returned to private practice and in 1965 became part of McCampbell & Young, a Knoxville firm formed through the merger of the earlier practice with the firm of Robert and Lindsay Young. His legal work included representation in federal litigation, including matters before the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and federal courts in Tennessee.
McCampbell was admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States in 1945. His wartime service in the Judge Advocate General’s Department placed him within the Army’s military legal organization while he remained associated with the Knoxville legal profession.
McCampbell was the son of Herbert H. McCampbell and Edna McCampbell. His professional life was closely connected with the Knoxville law firms that evolved from Green, Webb & McCampbell into McCampbell & Young.
