Peirson Mitchell Hall
Peirson Mitchell Hall, known as Peirson M. Hall, (1894–1979) was a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1925 to 1929, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California from 1933 to 1937, a judge in the Los Angeles Superior Court from 1939 to 1940, head of the U.S. Selective Service System for Los Angeles in 1941 and a federal District Court judge from 1942 to 1979. He was considered the foremost authority of aviation law among the nation's 500 federal judges.
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