Peirson Mitchell Hall

Peirson Mitchell Hall (July 31, 1894 – December 8, 1979) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California and the United States District Court for the Central District of California. Education and career Born on July 31, 1894, in Armour, South Dakota, Hall attended two years of high school in Tecumseh, Nebraska. He lived in a Nebraska orphanage for a period of time before moving to Los Angeles to study law. He took a one-year course at Polytechnic High School in Los Angeles. He attended the USC Gould School of Law, then read law in 1916. He entered private practice in Los Angeles, California from 1916 to 1925. He was a city councilman for Los Angeles from 1925 to 1929. In 1929, Hall ran for election as Los Angeles city attorney but lost to Erwin P. Werner in the June final, 152,566 to 82,444. He returned to private practice in Los Angeles from 1929 to 1934. He was the United States Attorney for the Southern District of California from 1934 to 1937. He resumed private practice in Los Angeles from 1937 to 1939. He was a Judge of the Superior Court of California for the County of Los Angeles from 1939 to 1942. He was head of the Selective Service System for Southern California in 1941. City Council service