Peter Hill Hill Beer

Background

Beer, Peter Hill was born on April 12, 1928 in New Orleans. Son of Mose Haas and Henret (Lowenburg) Beer.

Education

Bachelor of Business Administration, Tulane University, 1949; Bachelor of Laws, Tulane University, 1952; Master of Laws, University of Virginia, 1986.

Career

Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, Beer was a Sergeant in the United States Army toward the end of World War II, from 1945 to 1946. He was a Captain in the U.S. Air Corps, JAG Corps from 1952 to 1955. He was in private practice in New Orleans, Louisiana from 1955 to 1974, serving on the New Orleans City Council from 1969 to 1974, including service as vice president from 1972 to 1974, and as acting president from 1973 to 1974.

He was a judge on the Louisiana Court of Appeals from 1974 to 1979, and on the Louisiana Supreme Court from 1978 to 1979. On October 11, 1979, Beer was nominated by President Jimmy Carter to a new seat on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana created by 92 Stat. 1629. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on November 26, 1979, and received his commission on November 27, 1979.

He assumed senior status on April 12, 1994. In 1986, Beer sentenced former Alexandria municipal finance and utilities commissioner Arnold Jack Rosenthal (1923-2010) to twenty-two months in prison for wire fraud. He also assessed a $2,000 fine on Rosenthal and directed three years of probation after completion of the incarceration.

Achievements

• Bar: Louisiana 1952.

Membership

Member of board of managers Touro Infirmary, New Orleans, 1969-1974. Member executive com.Bur. Governmental Research, 1965-1969.

Chairman professional division United Fund New Orleans, 1966-1969. Member New Orleans City Council, 1969-1974, vice president, 1972-1974. Captain United States Air Force, 1952-1955.

Member American Bar Association (member house delegations), American Judicature Society, Federal Bar Association, Louisiana Bar Association, Federal Judges Association United States (board directors 1985, 5th circuit representative Board of Governors), National Lawyers Club, Southern Yacht Club, St. John Golf Club.

Connections

Children: Kimberly Beer Bailes, Kenneth, Dana Beer Long-Innes. Married Marjorie Barry, July 14, 1985.

Father:

Mose Haas Beer

Mother:

Henret (Lowenburg) Beer

Spouse:

Marjorie Barry

child:

Kenneth Beer

child:

Kimberly Beer Bailes Beer

child:

Dana Beer Long-Innes Beer