William A. Sloane

William Arthur Sloane (October 10, 1854 – April 21, 1930) was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of California from May 15, 1920, to January 1923.

Biography Born in Rockford, Illinois, to Hampton P. and Adeline Sloane, his family moved to Missouri, where he attended the public schools, and then attended Grinnell College, receiving a B.A. in 1877. Sloane held the trial court office for four years, thereafter returning to the practice of the law in association with A. A. Sweet and Lewis R. Kirby.

In 1898, Sloane formed a partnership with Judge Moses A. Luce, with whom he worked until 1911, when Governor Hiram Johnson appointed Sloane to the Superior Court of San Diego County. Sloane was re-elected to that office, which he held until January 1, 1919, when Governor William Stephens appointed him to the newly created Second Division of the California Court of Appeal, Second District.

In April 1920, Sloane resigned from the appellate court effective May 3, 1920, to accept an appointment to the California Supreme Court, filling a vacancy caused by the death of Associate Justice Henry A. Melvin. In September 1920, Sloane was elected over challenger John M. York to the two-year remainder of Melvin's term. In November 1922, Sloane ran unsuccessfully for re-election, campaigning on the point he was the sole candidate from Southern California. In the contest, incumbent justices Sloane and Charles A. Shurtleff were replaced by Frank H. Kerrigan and Emmett Seawell. Precinct returns show Sloane carried the Los Angeles vote, but lost the race in the San Francisco ballots.

After Sloane stepped down from the bench in January 1923, he again returned to private practice.

In 1930, when the Fourth Appellate District was created, Governor C. C. Young appointed Sloane to that court; however, Sloane soon became ill and died six months after taking office.

Personal life Sloane married Annie B. Kimball, of Vineland, New Jersey, on May 1, 1882,