predecessor successor death_date birth_place death_place religion office termstart termend appointer birth_date spouse article_title name alma_mater
fred l. henley robert t. donnelly 1 april 1988 st. louis , missouri cole , missouri methodist chief of the supreme court of missouri justice of the supreme court of missouri judge july 1 , 1971 january 8 , 1965 june 30 , 1973 1978 john m. dalton 13 november 1907 helen carroll james a. finch , jr. .
 james a. finch , jr. . university southeast missouri state university of missouri school of law university of missouri
james a. finch , jr. .

james a. finch , jr. -lrb- november 13 , 1907 -- april 1 , 1988 -rrb- was a judge on the missouri supreme court from 1965 until 1978 , and the chief justice of that same court from 1971 to 1973 .
he attended public schools in fornfelt and new madrid , missouri and graduated from the university of missouri in columbia .
he served as a major in the u.s. army air corps between 1942 and 1945 .
