Morris Bockee Mitchell

Background

Mitchell, Morris Bockee was born on August 21, 1890 in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. Son of Morris Miller and Elizabeth I. (Dwinnell) Mitchell.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, University of Wisconsin, 1912. Bachelor of Laws, Harvard, 1915.

Career

Admitted to Minnesota state bar, 1915. Practiced Minneapolis, Minnesota, since 1915. Partner Rockwood and Mitchell, 1920-1935, Cronin, Mitchell & Shadduck, 1936-1945, Cronin, Mitchell & Spooner, 1946-1964, Mitchell & Meshbesher, from 1964.

Counsel for Federal Court receiver, West. B. Foshay Company, 1929-1935, receiver, from 1935.

Achievements

• Morris Bockee Mitchell has been listed as a reputable lawyer by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member judicial council State of Minnesota, 1939-1957. Served as sergeant major, 1st Field Artillery, Minnesota National Guard, 1916, on Mexican Border. Fellow American Bar Foundation.

Member of American Bar Association (chairman of the section on bar organization activities, 1936.

Member of the Board of Governors 1941-1944 (Chairman of Commission on judicial selection, tenure, compensation, 1948-1955), Minnesota (president 1931-1932), Hennepin Company bar Associations, American Law Institute, American Judicature Society, Sigma Chirurgical Club: Minneapolis.

Connections

Married May Adams Lincoln, July 20, 1926. Children: Morris Bockee, Lincoln Adams.

Father:

Morris Miller Mitchell

Mother:

Elizabeth I. (Dwinnell) Mitchell

Spouse:

May Adams Lincoln

child:

Lincoln Adams Mitchell

child:

Morris Bockee Mitchell