Jim Dewitt Bowmer

Background

Bowmer, Jim Dewitt was born on May 4, 1919 in Temple, Texas, United States. Son of DeWitt and Linnie B. (Morgan) Bowmer.

Education

Bachelor cum laude, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, 1940. Bachelor of Laws cum laude, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, 1942.

Career

County attorney, Bell County, Texas, 1946-1947. Lecturer Baylor University Law School, 1949-1950, 56-57. President firm Bowmer, Courtney, Burleson, Normand & Moore, Temple, from 1964.

Achievements

• Bar: Texas 1942.

Religion

Regular ceremonies enable people to open themselves to God more fully. They help people to hear God's offer and challenge ever more deeply, and to allow God to prompt and enable them to respond.

Politics

Religious freedom should be supported and the expressions of faith of others should be respected.

Views

The sense of being connected is how the Church as a whole should be structured. At its heart is an understanding of the Christian community as the 'body of Christ '.

Membership

Board directors National Park Foundation, 1968-1969. Served with Army of the United States, 1942-1946. Member American Law Institute, American Judicature Society, Texas Association Defense Counsel, State Bar Texas (chairman board 1970-1971, president 1972-1973), Bell-Lampasas-Mills Counties Bar Association (past president), Temple Chamber of Commerce (past president), Baylor University Law Alumni Association (past president), Phi Alpha Delta.

Clubs: Masons, Knights of Pythias (past grand chancellor Texas), Kiwanis.

Connections

Married Daurice Spoonts, March 26, 1961. Children: Bonnie Nell Neal, Mary Helen Bowmer Schreiner, IV.

Father:

DeWitt Bowmer

Mother:

Linnie B. (Morgan) Bowmer

Spouse:

Daurice Spoonts

child:

Bonnie Nell Neal Bowmer

child:

Mary Helen Bowmer Schreiner Bowmer

child:

IV Bowmer