John Honnold was born in 1915 and grew up on a farm in central Illinois. He graduated from Harvard Law School and served in the federal administration for the SEC and as the defender for the Price Administration during WWII. After the war, Mr. Honnold became a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. As the first Chief Counsel of the Mississippi Office of the Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights, Honnold was responsible for acquiring an injunction against the arrest of more than a thousand people who were protesting in front of the Jackson, Mississippi courthouse in 1965. He later became the first Chief of the United Nations Commission for International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) and was one of the main architects of the 1980 Vienna convention.
From the description of Prof. John O. Honnold [videorecording] : Schnader Professor of Commercial Law Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania ..., 2000 March 25. (University of Pennsylvania Law Library). WorldCat record id: 179304161
