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[[Image: | [[Image:FuersteWilliam..jpg|left|thumb|150px|Photo courtesy: Telegraph Herald]]FUERSTE, William. (Proctor, MN, Jan. 25, 1923--Dubuque, IA, Mar. 25, 2011). William Fuerste's family settled in Dubuque in 1930, following residences in St. Louis, Mo., Proctor, Minn., and Chicago, related to the medical practice and specialty training in eye, ear, nose and throat of Frederick Fuerste, William's father, | ||
William [[DUBUQUE SENIOR HIGH]] in 1940. He attended the [[UNIVERSITY OF DUBUQUE]] and the University of Iowa before joining the military during [[WORLD WAR II]]. His sea duty was in the Atlantic on the Destroyer Escort USS Sutton. | William [[DUBUQUE SENIOR HIGH]] in 1940. He attended the [[UNIVERSITY OF DUBUQUE]] and the University of Iowa before joining the military during [[WORLD WAR II]]. His sea duty was in the Atlantic on the Destroyer Escort USS Sutton. | ||
Revision as of 03:13, 7 May 2011
FUERSTE, William. (Proctor, MN, Jan. 25, 1923--Dubuque, IA, Mar. 25, 2011). William Fuerste's family settled in Dubuque in 1930, following residences in St. Louis, Mo., Proctor, Minn., and Chicago, related to the medical practice and specialty training in eye, ear, nose and throat of Frederick Fuerste, William's father,
William DUBUQUE SENIOR HIGH in 1940. He attended the UNIVERSITY OF DUBUQUE and the University of Iowa before joining the military during WORLD WAR II. His sea duty was in the Atlantic on the Destroyer Escort USS Sutton.
Fuerste graduated with distinction from the University of Iowa College of Law in August of 1947, with the first class of returning veterans graduated and admitted to the Iowa Bar based totally on post-war courses in the law college. He married Margaret Welch, a native of Dubuque, on July 2, 1949.
An eloquent lawyer known for quoting Oliver Wendell Holmes and William Shakespeare in court, Fuerste's legal specialty was civil litigation. In 1953 he first practiced law in Dubuque with Robert Clewell, becoming a partner in the firm of Clewell, Cooney and Fuerste. In 1965 he formed a partnership with Allan Carew that developed by 1989 into the firm of Fuerste, Carew, Coyle, Juergens and Sudmeier.
Fuerste served in various positions of presidency and committee chairmanship in his state and local bar associations and was a peer-elected Fellow and past chairman of the Iowa Chapter of the American College of Trial Lawyers. During his active trial career he was listed in the publication "The Best Lawyers in America," first in 1983, and annually thereafter, as one of the 14 Iowa lawyers peer-rated as most excelling in the practice category of civil litigation.
Fuerste served as a member of the Dubuque Symphony Board and Rotarians.
