George Willi III (May 1, 1924 – September 26, 2016) was a judge of the

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from 1965 to 1982, and of the United States Court of Federal Claims from 1982 to 1985. Willi was born in

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. He served in the

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during

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, from 1943 to 1946, achieving the rank of captain. He then received a Bachelor of Business Administration from the

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in 1950 and a

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from the University of Wisconsin Law School the same year. He was a Carriers' attorney for the

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from 1950 to 1951, and a trial attorney in the Tax Division of the U.S. Department of Justice from 1951 to 1963, thereafter entering private practice in Washington, D.C., in 1964. In 1965, Willi became a trial judge of the

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. On October 1, 1982, Willi was appointed by operation of the Federal Courts Improvement Act, 96 Stat. 27, to a new seat on the

. In 2003, Judge Alex Kozinski wrote in an article on his tenure as chief judge of the Court of Claims: Willi assumed

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on December 14, 1982, and then resigned from the court entirely on January 4, 1985. Willi was one of several judges originally assigned to the U.S. Court of Federal Claims for whom no successor was appointed.Federal Judicial Center
History of the Federal Judiciary, U.S. Court of Federal Claims, 1982–present: Judge Succession Chart

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Willi, George 1924 births 2016 deaths 20th-century American judges 20th-century American lawyers Judges of the United States Court of Federal Claims Lawyers from New York City United States Army Air Forces personnel of World War II University of Wisconsin Law School alumni Wisconsin School of Business alumni