Background
Cree, Wade Hampton Mc was born on July 3, 1920 in Des Moines. Son of Wade Hampton and Lulu H. (Harper) McCree.
law educator United States solicitor general
Cree, Wade Hampton Mc was born on July 3, 1920 in Des Moines. Son of Wade Hampton and Lulu H. (Harper) McCree.
Bachelor of Arts, Fisk U., 1941; Bachelor of Laws, Harvard University, 1944; Doctor of Laws, Harvard University, 1969; Doctor of Laws, Wayne State University, 1964; Doctor of Laws, Tuskegee Institute, 1965; Doctor of Laws, Detroit College Law, 1965; Doctor of Laws, University Detroit, 1968; Doctor of Laws, Michigan State University, 1971; Doctor of Laws, University Michigan, 1971; Doctor of Laws, Oakland U., 1971; Doctor of Laws, Lewis & Clark/Northwestern University, 1976; Doctor of Laws, Howard U., 1977; Doctor of Laws, Atlanta U., 1977; Doctor of Laws, Boston University, 1977; Doctor of Laws, Chicago-Kent School Law, 1978; Doctor of Laws, George Washington University, 1979; Doctor of Laws, University Pennsylvania, 1979; Doctor of Laws, New York Law School, 1979; Doctor of Laws, Eastern Michigan U., 1979; Doctor of Laws, University Dayton, 1980; Doctor of Laws, Brandeis U., 1980; Doctor of Laws, Bowdoin College, 1980; Doctor of Laws, Georgetown University, 1980; Doctor of Laws, Harvard University, 1969; Doctor of Laws, Suffolk U., 1985; Doctor of Laws, University Arizona, 1985; Doctor of Laws, Northern Michigan U., 1985; Doctor of Laws, University Colorado, 1987; Doctor of Civil Law, U. Toledo, 1979; Doctor of Civil Law, Colgate University, 1985; Doctor of Humane Letters, DePaul University, 1980; Doctor of Humane Letters, Marygrove College, 1980; Doctor of Humane Letters, Hebrew Union College, 1982; Doctor of Letters, Centre College, 1975.
Practice law, Detroit, 1948-1952;
commissioner, Michigan Workmen's Compensation Commission, 1952-1954;
circuit judge, Wayne County (Michigan), 1954-1961;
judge, United States District Court Eastern District Michigan, 1961-1966;
judge, United States Court Appeals 6th Circuit, 1966-1977;
solicitor general United States, 1977-1981. Member of faculty University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, 1981-1987, Salzburg Seminar American Studies, 1969. Summer faculty Indiana U. Law School.
Director National Bank Detroit, Unisys Corporation. Former member visiting committee Wayne State University Law School, Case Western Reserve Law School, Harvard Law School. Member liaison committee medical education American Medical Association.
United States delegate 3d United Nations Congress Prevention of Crime, Stockholm, 1965. Appointed Special Master Supreme Court of the United States Court in California versus Texas, 1982, New Jersey versus Nevada, 1986, Kansas versus Colorado, 1986.
Advisory board United Foundation Detroit. Executive Board Detroit Area council Boy Scouts American. Trustee Fisk U., Nashville.
Founding trustee Friends School, Detroit. Founding member Michigan Opera Theatre, 1971. Board directors Metropolitan Hospital, Henry Ford Hospital, Founders Society Detroit Institute Arts, National Judicial College Served to captain, infantry Army of the United States, 1942-1946, European Theatre of Operations.
Fellow American College Trial Lawyers (honorary), American Bar Foundation. Member American Bar Association. mem.commn. on standards judicial administration, other commissions), National Bar Association, Detroit Bar Association, State Bar Michigan, Institute Judicial Administration, American Judicature Society, American Law Institute (council), American Association Law Schools (Executive Committee), Seminar Society (Detroit), Phi Beta Kappa Associates.
Married Dores B. McCrary, July 29, 1946. Children: Kathleen L. Mc Cree Lewis, Karen L., Wade H.