Joseph Warren Madden

Joseph Warren Madden

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Nonpartisan

Prior offices

U.S. Court of Claims

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Personal

Birthplace

Illinois

Joseph Warren Madden (1890-1972) was a federal judge on the United States Court of Claims.

Madden was nominated to the Court of Claims by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He was commissioned on January 7, 1941, and retired on August 15, 1961.

Education

• University of Illinois, B.A., 1911
• University of Chicago Law School, J.D., 1914

Professional career

• Professor of law, University of Oklahoma, 1914-1916
• Private practice, Rockford, Illinois, 1916-1917
• Professor of law, Ohio State University, 1917-1921
• Special assistant to the Attorney General of the United States, Washington, DC, 1920
• Professor of law and Dean, West Virginia University Law School, 1921-1927
• Professor of law, University of Pittsburgh, 1927-1938
• Chairman, National Labor Relations Board, 1935-1940
• Associate director, director, and legal adviser, Legal Division, U.S. Military Governor, Office of Military Government for Germany, 1945-1946
• Professor of law, Hastings Law School, University of California, San Francisco, California, 1961-1972