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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The Gosses and the Goodrums

William Pannill VIII

Crab joins Jackson’s foot cavalry for Fredericksburg

Thomas Jefferson declines an invitation

Did Zachary Taylor meet our cousin at the White House?

Some famous kin claim Pannill ancestors

Are Pannills really Pannells?

Where does the name ‘Pannill’ emerge from?

Company D loses half its men at Sharpsburg

Lee risks disaster in Maryland