Education
Stanford University; Harvard Law School.
Stanford University; Harvard Law School.
Born in Los Angeles, California, Ford received an Bachelor of Arts from Stanford University in 1928 and an Bachelor of Laws from Harvard Law School in 1931. From 1931–1941, he was an attorney in Los Los Angeles From 1934–1941, Ford was a Professor at Loyola Law School—the school where his father was the founding dean
From 1941–1943, he was the Chief Enforcement Attorney in Los Angeles for the Office of Price Administration, the newly established federal agency responsible for rent and price controls (the Office of Price Administration was abolished in 1946).
In 1943, Governor Earl Warren appointed Ford to the Los Angeles County Municipal Court, where he served until 1948 when Warren elevated him to the Los Angeles County Superior Court. Ford left the Superior Court when Governor Pat Brown appointed Ford to the California Second District Court of Appeal, Division Three in 1959.
Brown elevated Ford to Presiding Justice of the same court in 1966. Ford retired in 1977 and died in Newport Beach, California in 1982.
Ford was one of three children of father William Joseph Ford and Margaret McCarthy.
The other 2 were Robert and Margaret. Ford"s mother died when he was four years old. Ford"s father later remarried Cecily Chambers and had 7 more children: Liam, Moira, Patrick, James, Declan, Joe Brendan, and Derrick.
John Joseph Ford went on to graduate from Loyola High School.