Background
STOLL, Richard Charles was born on March 21, 1876 in Lexington, Kentucky, United States. Son of Richard Pindell and Margaret (Elvina) Stoll.
STOLL, Richard Charles was born on March 21, 1876 in Lexington, Kentucky, United States. Son of Richard Pindell and Margaret (Elvina) Stoll.
Private School, 1882-1887. Allegan Academy, 1887-1891. Kentucky State College, 95, Bachelor of Arts.
Yale University, Bachelor of Laws, 1897. University of Kentucky, Doctor of Laws, 1913.
Admitted to Kentucky bar, 1897, and began practice at Lexington. Member firm Darnall & Stoll, 1902-1904, Stoll & Bush, 1904-1915.
Vice-president and general counsel Lexington Water Company, 1907-1921. General counsel Kentucky Traction & Terminal Company and Lexington Utilities Company, 1911-1921. Vice president Lexington Gas Company, 1911-1921.
Director First National Bank & Trust Company, Kentucky Securities Corporation Judge Circuit Court, 22d Judicial District of Kentucky, 1921-1931. Member Stoll, Muir, Townsend & Park. General counsel and director Southeastern Greyhound Lines, Alabama Bus Company, Kentucky Traction & Terminal Company, Lexington Utilities Company Special judge Jessamine Circuit Court, 1934.
Chief justice Special Count of Appeals of Kentucky, 1940. Chairman, Civil Service Commission, Lexington, Kentucky. Member Special Committee on Practice and Procedure, Court of Appeals of Kentucky, since 1938.
Member Kentucky Council on Higher Education. Director of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Cincinnati, representing the public, 1932-1934. Member Citizens Advisory Committee appointed by governor to recommend a reörganization of Kentucky state government.
Chairman Committee Public Safety and Kentucky Council Defense. Head of America Protective League, Kentucky, World War I. Delaware to Republican National Convention, 1912, 16, 20. Chairman Republican State Convention, 1924.
Chairman of Commission on resolutions, Kentucky State Convention, 1931. Chairman Kentucky State Board Election Commissioners, 1914-1915. Member Judicial Council of Kentucky, 1928-1931.
Member 6th Circuit Committee to advise with judges Circuit Court of Appeals as to new rules of federal practice. President Circuit Judges of Kentucky, 1928-1931. Trustee University of Kentucky since 1898, chairman its Executive Committee and vice chairman trustees.
Chairman of the Board Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station.
Member American Bar Association (member commission on judicial procedure, 1937-1938), American Law Institute, Association Bar City New York, Kentucky State Bar Association (president 1923), American Judicature Society (director for Kentucky, 1937-1938), National Economics League (member of national council), National Institute Social Sciences, American Society Political Science, American Museum of Natural History (associate), Sons of Revolution (president Kentucky society), Kneeland Association (director), Kentucky Trotting Horse Breeders Association (president, 1910-1914), Newcomen Society of England. Order of Coif, Phi Beta Kappa Associates (founding. Clubs: Lexington, Ashland, Lexington Country (Lexington).
Member of Kentucky State Bar Association (President, 1922-1923). American Law Institute. American Bar Association. Assn, of Bar of City of New York (Honorary). Phi Beta Kappa; Kappa Alpha. Book and Gavel at Yale. Sons of Revolution Clubs: Lexington, Lexington Country, Ashland Country (Lexington), Pendennis and Filson (Louisville), Queen City, University (Cincinnati), Yale, Republican (New York.
Spouse Agelene Chesnut, September 24, 1919, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
