William Pannill

Mr. Pannill, a native of Houston, retired as a lawyer in 2005. He graduated from Rice University in 1962 and the University of Texas School of Law in 1970. He joined a large law firm in Houston. Mr. Pannill practised law for 25 years in his own firm, Pannill, Moser & Barnes. His father, Fitzhugh Hastings Pannill, and grandfather, Judge William Pannill, practised law as well. He also attended the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, where he worked nights as a copy boy for The New York Times. He was a member of the staff of The Detroit Free Press that won the Pulitzer Prize for general local reporting for coverage of the Detroit riots of 1967.

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Posts by William Pannill

Churchill’s Warnings

Judge Pannill’s career

Putin and Churchill

A History Lesson

A soldier’s first letter in the Army hospital

Our V-J Day, August 14, 1945

Mariah Hunt writes daughter Nellie in 1877

Mary Pannill’s suitcase

A letter from Montreal

Monk Reese serves in the Army — briefly