George Wise, '48, 1924-2015

George Wise, JD 1948, died on March 28, 2015, at his home in Long Beach, CA. He was 91 years old.

George was an editor of the Law Review. After the Law School, he clerked for Justice Schenk at the California Supreme Court. He then moved to Long Beach where he practiced with fellow UChicago graduates Raymond Simpson and Robert Kilpatrick for many years and later as the senior partner in a firm he established with his daughter-in-law, Susan Anderson Wise, JD 1974, and others.

His many accomplishments included his election to the American College of Trial Lawyers, his participation as an observer of the Nicaraguan elections as part of a delegation led by Jimmy Carter during the Reagan administration, and his advocacy as a lawyer for, among others, the American Gold Star Mothers in Brown v. Memorial National Home Foundation, a significant California charitable trust case that secured a housing project for the organization whose members are mothers of U.S. Servicemen who die during their military service. He was married for 54 years to Patricia Eleanor Wise (nee Finn), who preceded him in death, and he is survived by his five children (including Erich Wise, JD 1948), eleven grandchildren (including Caitlin Carter, nee Wise, BS 1999), and five great-grandchildren.