Excerpt from Domestic Relations: One of the Series of Lectures Especially Prepared for the Blackstone Institute
Judge William N. Gemmill was born at Shannon, Illinois, in 1860. After attending the common schools, he entered Cornell College at Mt. Vernon, Iowa, from which he graduated in 1886. From 1886 to 1890 he was superintendent of public schools of Kockford, Iowa. From 1890 to 1892 he was superintendent of the public schools of Marion, Iowa. In 1892 he entered the law department of Northwestern University, from which he graduated and was admitted to the bar in 1894. After that he practiced law continuously in Chicago until 1906, when he was elected Judge of the Municipal Court of Chicago. He has held this position ever since, being the only Republican associate judge re-elected to that court in 1912.
For one year he presided over the Court of Domestic Relations and tried during that time over one thousand cases of wife and child abandonment.
He has been president of the Illinois branch of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology, is the author of "Practice in Civil Actions" in Modem American Law, and has written many articles that have been widely published in various magazines and legal journals.
He is a lecturer in the Chicago Kent College of Law, also in the Chicago Law School, from which latter school he holds the degree of LL.D.
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