Judson M. Grimmet, Wilson Co., TN., then Caddo Parish, Louisiana Submitted by Mike Miller Date: 1999-2000 *********************************************************************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm *********************************************** Judson M. Grimmet, who is referee in bankruptcy at Shreveport, qualified for the Practice of law a quarter of a century ago, but for a number of years his time was largely engaged in government service. He was born near Lebanon, in Wilson County, Tennessee, in 1877, and was reared and educated there. His higher education was acquired in the Cumberland University at Lebanon, where he was graduated with the degree Bachelor of Laws in 1900. Instead of engaging in practice he entered the government service as postoffice inspector, and was assigned to duties with headquarters at New Orleans, Louisiana. In the year 1910 he was transferred from the postoffice department to the office of the United Sates marshal for the western district of Louisiana, and served in that capacity until 1917. Mr. Grimmet was admitted to the Louisiana bar in 1912. For the past seven years he has carried on an extensive private practice in Shreveport, and in addition has given much time to his duties in the federal position of referee in bankruptcy. His offices are in the Slattery Building. He was admitted to practice in the United States Circuit Court of Appeals in 1920, and admitted to practice in the United States Supreme Court. One notable service he rendered as a lawyer was as attorney for the vice commission which drove the disreputable resorts out of Shreveport. Mr. Grimmet was a close friend to Judge Aleck Boarman, who was United States judge for the Western District of Louisiana for thirty-five years. He was likewise a close personal friend of Judge G. W. Jack, who succeeded Judge Boarman on the bench in 1917. In March, 1924, upon the death of Judge Jack, Mr. Grimmet became an active candidate for the position of United States judge. He was endorsed by the republican organization of Louisiana, being one of the leading republicans of the state, and both United Sates senators told the president that Mr. Grimmet, though a republican, was acceptable to them. In addition the lawyers and his many friends of the district gave him their hearty support. President Coolidge, however, had decided to favor the South with the appointment of a democrat to the position of United States judge and appointed Judge Ben C. Wilkins, a member of the Supreme Court of Louisiana. The splendid endorsement given Mr. Grimmet in this race was an expression of confidence which the bar and the citizens had in him as a man and jurist. He has been identified more or less actively with several other movements for clean government. He a thirty-second degree Mason and Shriner, a member of the Sons of the American Revolution Knights of Pythias, the Benevolent and Protective order of Elks, and is a Rotarian. He married Miss Roberta Bass, of Texas a talented musician, graduate of Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, and they have a daughter, Julia. NOTE: A signed photograph/painting accompanies this narrative in the referenced source. A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 97, by Henry E. Chambers. Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.