George W. Latimer

George Webster Latimer (November 28, 1900 – May 3, 1990) was a Utah lawyer best known for representing Lt. William Calley Jr. in his court martial for the My Lai incident. Latimer was also a justice of the Utah Supreme Court from 1946 to 1951 and one of the three original members of the U.S. Court of Military Appeals from 1951 to 1961. Early life Latimer was born in Draper, Utah, to John and Petria Jensen Latimer and attended Salt Lake Public Schools. In 1924, he graduated from the University of Utah College of Law, where he was a member of Delta Theta Phi law fraternity. As an undergraduate at the University of Utah he was a member of Sigma Pi fraternity. Latimer practiced law in Salt Lake City from 1924 to 1940. He joined the Utah National Guard in 1925. On October 5, 1929, Latimer married Rhoda Caroll. They had two children.