William Cameron Canby Jr.

Judicial Service

Education

• Yale University, B.A., 1953
• University of Minnesota Law School, LL.B., 1956

Professional Career

U.S. Air Force lieutenant and judge advocate, 1956-1958; Law clerk, Hon. Charles E. Whittaker, Supreme Court of the United States, 1958-1959; Private practice, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1959-1962; U.S. Peace Corps, 1962-1966; associate director, Ethiopia, 1962-1963; deputy director, Ethiopia, 1963-1964, director, Uganda, 1964-1966; Special assistant, U.S. Sen. Walter F. Mondale ofMinnesota, Washington, D.C., 1966; Special assistant, President Harris Wofford, State University of New York at Old Westbury, 1967; Professor of law, Arizona State University, 1967-1980; Director, Office of Indian Law, Arizona State University College of Law; Visiting Fulbright professor of law, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, 1970-1971

External Links

• Federal Judicial Center Biography