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JAMES H.
FREEMAN
James H.
Freeman, attorney, was born in Modesto, California on May 9, 1909; son of James
L. and Mary Jane (Montgomery) Freeman.
His preparatory education was
obtained at University of California, from which he received the A.B. degree in
1932 and the LL.B. degree in 1935.
Mr. Freeman served as district
attorney of Alameda County, California, from 1936 to 1939; then assistant
prosecuting attorney of Alameda County, California, from 1939 to 1941; chief
enforcement attorney in Office of Price Administration, Washington, D.C., 1941.
He was a partner in the firm of Dunne & Dunne, attorneys at San Francisco,
from 1945 to 1948, and partner in the firm of Ricksen,
Freeman & Johnson, Oakland, California, since 1948.
Member of the Alameda County Bar
Association, San Francisco Bar Association, State Bar of California; University
Club of San Francisco; Athenian-Nile Club of Oakland; and Big C. Society.
Mr. Freeman married Rosana Kilpatrick on June 9, 1937, and has three sons:
Sherwood, age fourteen; James Jr., age nine; and John, age two. Their home is
at 28 Las Cascades, Orinda, California.
Offices: 1003 Central Bank Building, Oakland,
California.
Transcribed By: Cecelia M. Setty.
Source: “Eminent Californians 1953”,
by Lee E. Johnson & C. W. Taylor. Page 312, C. W. Taylor
Publ., Palo Alto, California, 1953.
© 2014 Cecelia
M. Setty.