Career
Prior to being elected Judge, he ran a successful law firm. Judge Lott"s law career spanned almost seventy years and in the courtroom he was infamous for requiring strict following of procedure and details. He was known by local lawyers as the "Southern Judge", for addressing the court in a slow Texas drawl.
Judge Lott was born in 1918 in Clarendon, Texas.
Lott attended the University of Texas Law School, graduating with a degree in 1940. At the outbreak of World World War II, Lott joined the United States. Army and served as an officer in the Signal, Image, Communications, a military intelligence corporations
The William South. Lott Juvenile Center in Georgetown, Texas was built and named after him. Today, it helps rehab troubled youth and steer them away from crime.
In his tenure as Judge, he stuck to the law, never allowing reporters or cameras in his courtroom.
