Background
Arant, Herschel Whitfield was born on July 18, 1887 in Church Hill, Tallapoosa County, Alabama, United States. Son of William Jackson and Villulia (Akin) Arant.
Arant, Herschel Whitfield was born on July 18, 1887 in Church Hill, Tallapoosa County, Alabama, United States. Son of William Jackson and Villulia (Akin) Arant.
Bachelor of Science, University of Alabama, 1910, Doctor of Laws, 1938. Bachelor of Arts, Yale, 1911, Master of Arts, 1912, Bachelor of Laws, 1915. Doctor of Laws, Tulane University, 1938.
Born in Church Hill, Alabama, Arant received a Bachelor of Surgery from the University of Alabama in 1910. He went on to receive a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University in 1911, an Master of Arts from Yale two years later, and an Bachelor of Laws from Yale Law School in 1915. Arant was in private practice of law in Atlanta, Georgia, from 1915 to 1920, but quickly became involved in academia.
He was a professor of law at the Lamar School of Law in Emory University in 1916, and switch to Yale, where he was an assistant professor from 1920 to 1922.
He was then made a full professor and dean of the law school at the University of Kansas, and then moved to hold the same positions at Ohio State University from 1928 to 1939. On February 9, 1939, President Franklin Doctorate. Roosevelt nominated Arant to a new seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
He was confirmed by the United States Senate on February 21, and received his commission on March 4. He served until his death two years later.
Member Arant & Trimble, 1915-1920. Member Ohio Barometer
Married Charlotte Marguerite Hein, August 16, 1915. Children: Mary Pickett, Frances Elizabeth, Charlotte Marguerite.