Background
Helmick, Milton John was born on November 27, 1885 in St. Louis. Son of John and Ida (Wynkoop) W.
Helmick, Milton John was born on November 27, 1885 in St. Louis. Son of John and Ida (Wynkoop) W.
Student Stanford University, 1905-1906, 1907-1908, U. Colorado, 1906-1907. Bachelor of Laws, University Denver, 1910.
Admitted to Colo, bar, 1911, New Mexico bar, 1912. Practiced in Socorro, New Mexico, 1912-1917. Assistant attorney general New Mexico, 1917.
Practiced in Albuquerque and attorney for New Mexico Central Railway, 1919-1923. Attorney general of New Mexico, 1923-1925. Judge New Mexico 2d District Court, 1925-1934.
Judge The United States of America Court for China from 1934 until abolition of extra territorially, 1943. Professor Comparative Law School of China since 1939. Returned to the United States on diplomatic exchange ship, August 1942.
Member President’s Board of Visa Appeals, 1944-1945. Special mission to Chungking for State Department, 1944. Counsel for Standard-Vacuum Oil Corporation in China, 1945-1951.
Attache and consul, American Legation in Morocco acting as judge of consular courts at Tangier and Casablanca, 1952.
Served with infantry, United States Army, 1918. Member Royal Asiatic Society, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Phi Delta Phi.
Spouse Mildred MacLanahan, January 29, 1916, El Paso, Texas.