John Corbett O'Meara

John Corbett O'Meara (born November 4, 1933) is an inactive Senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. Education and career Born in Hillsdale, Michigan, O'Meara received his secondary education in the Hillsdale Public Schools and received an Artium Baccalaureus degree from the University of Notre Dame in 1955. Between college and law school, he served on active duty with the United States Navy as a line officer in submarines and was engineer officer of the navy's first guided missile submarine, from 1955 to 1959. After leaving the navy, he served in Washington, D.C. as staff assistant to United States Senator Philip A. Hart. O'Meara received a Bachelor of Laws from Harvard Law School in 1962. O'Meara joined the Harvard College faculty while pursuing a law degree and worked as a member of the Freshman Dean's staff as well as the coach of the Harvard Freshman Debate Team. He was in private practice in Detroit, Michigan from 1962 to 1994, specializing in employment law litigation, representing management clients. He became a partner in the firm of Dickinson, Wright, Moon, VanDusen and Freeman of Detroit, Michigan. He was the first Group Head of the Employment Law Group at Dickinson, Wright.