JAMES A. FINCH, JR.
1943

James A. Finch, Jr., eighteenth prosecuting attorney, was born in St. Louis on November 13, 1907, and was educated in the schools of Fornfelt, New Madrid, Southeast Missouri State College, and the University of Missouri - Columbia, where he received an A.B. in 1930 and a law degree in 1932. He practiced in Cape Girardeau and served as prosecuting attorney in 1943, before leaving for World War II, where he served as a major in the U.S. Army Air Corps. He was appointed to the Missouri Supreme Court in 1965 and retired from the bench in 1978. He was Chief Justice from 1971 to 1973. He was a curator of the University of Missouri from 1951 to 1965 and was a President of the Missouri Bar Foundation. He was a member of the Order of the Coif. He died April 1, 1988.

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