John Cumming Watkins

Background

Watkins, John Cumming was born on April 2, 1935 in Mobile, Alabama, United States. Son of John Cumming and Myrtle Lisette (van Devender) Watkins.

Education

Bachelor of Science, U. Alabama, Tuscaloosa, 1957; Juris Doctor, U. Alabama, 1962; Master of Science, Florida State University, 1964; Master of Laws, Northwestern University, 1968.

Career

Law clerk to associate justice, Supreme Court Alabama, Montgomery, 1962-1963; law clerk to presiding justice, United States Court Appeals (5th circuit), Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 1965-1966; assistant professor business law College Commerce, U. Alabama, Tuscaloosa, 1965-1969; department chairman criminal justice College Arts and Sciences, U. Alabama, Tuscaloosa, 1971-1977; professor, U. Alabama, Tuscaloosa, since 1975; acting department chair department criminal justice College Arts & Sciences, U. Alabama, Tuscaloosa, summer 1995; associate professor criminology, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas, 1969-1971. Consultant American Correctional Association, 1969-1971, Will Keith Kellogg Foundation, 1976, Kresge Foundation, 1979-1980, CHOICE, since 1980. Acting department department chairman criminaljustice College Arts & Sciences, summer since 1996.

Achievements

• John Cumming Watkins has been listed as a noteworthy Law educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member of advisory board Tuscaloosa County Juvenile Court, 1984-1988. First lieutenant United States Army, 1958-1960. Member Alabama Bar Association (chairman committee correctional institutions and procedures 1984-1986, member commission on citizenship education since 1995).

Interests

• Avocations: military history, model trains.

Connections

Married Nancy Lee Parham, September 24, 1964 (divorced October 1971). 1 child, Scott Christopher. M.Sallie Ann Wilson, August 12, 1972.

Children: Alicia Anne, Melissa Renee, John Cumming V.

Father:

John Cumming Watkins

Mother:

Myrtle Lisette (van Devender) Watkins

Spouse:

Nancy Lee Parham

child:

Alicia Anne Watkins

child:

John Cumming V. Watkins

child:

Scott Christopher Watkins

child:

Melissa Renee Watkins