Background
He was born at his father"s farm in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin.
He was born at his father"s farm in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin.
He was Justice on the Wisconsin Supreme Court from 1959 until 1964. He enlisted in the Wisconsin National Guard in 1917 during World War I. He helped found the American Legion. After the war was over, he went to college at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of Montana and later to law school at Marquette University.
He passed his bar exam in 1923 to become a lawyer
He served as a trial attorney in Milwaukee and Washington Counties for 36 years. He lost several elections for Wisconsin"s Attorney General and Wisconsin Supreme Court.
Dieterich was first elected to the Wisconsin Supreme Court in 1958, when he defeated Emmert L. Wingert in 1958 to become a Justice. In 1961, he convinced the Wisconsin Legislature to employ law clerks for the Supreme Court.