Homer G. Angelo

Homer Glenn Angelo, a native of Alameda, California, built a distinguished career in law, diplomacy, and legal education that spanned more than half a century. He earned a bachelor's degree in public speaking from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1938 and a law degree from the same university in 1941, later completing a Master of Laws degree at Columbia University in 1947. He practiced law for some fourteen years in San Francisco and in Carson City, Nevada, where he was admitted to the bar in the years following World War II.

His service during the war and its aftermath was extensive. He served with the 35th Infantry Regiment on Guadalcanal and later with the Second British Army, the First Canadian Army, and General Eisenhower's SHAEF mission to the Netherlands, for which he was awarded the Order of the House of Orange for his role in the liberation of Holland. As a foreign affairs specialist with the U.S. Department of State from 1949 to 1951, he helped work out the terms of Indonesian independence, served on the working group that established NATO, and contributed to collective measures during the Korean War.

Angelo went on to a long career in legal education and international law. He taught at Stanford University, where he co-taught an early course on the legal aspects of U.S. foreign relations, and served as a professor at the University of California, Davis, School of Law from 1968 to 1986, continuing to teach after his retirement. He maintained an international law practice in Geneva and Brussels for roughly three decades and chaired the American Bar Association's section on international and comparative law. He died on August 25, 1998, at the age of 82.