The William R. Ringer papers document his time as a law student at the University of Michigan from September 1920 to June 1922. The papers are organized into two series Diaries and Background.
William Raimond Ringer was born August 11, 1898, in Williamsport, Indiana, to Victor and Alice Thomas Ringer. He graduated as the valedictorian of Williamsport High School in 1916. He entered Indiana University in 1916 and graduated in 1920 magna cum laude with an AB in philosophy. While at Indiana he was a private in the United States Students' Army Training Corps (SATC).
Ringer entered the University of Michigan Law School in September 1920 and graduated in June 1922 with a JD degree. His brother Horace was also studying at the University of Michigan (AB 1924, LLB 1926). Ringer practiced law in Williamsport with his father Victor H. Ringer, an 1894 graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, as Ringer and Ringer from 1922 to 1926. He moved to Indianapolis in 1926 and was in private practice from 1926 to 1929. From 1929 to 1931 he served as the Trial Deputy Prosecuting Attorney in Criminal Court in Marion County Indiana before returning to private practice. In 1937 Ringer joined the National Labor Relations Board as a Trial Examiner. He was Chief Trial Examiner from 1942 until his retirement in 1963.
Ringer was married to Gladys Well on August 7, 1924. Gladys graduated from the University of Michigan Law School in 1923. They had one daughter, Barbara Alice Ringer.
William Ringer died October 4, 1973, in Washington, D.C. He is buried in Clinton, North Carolina.
