Clarence TeSelle Endowed Professorship

Clarence TeSelle

Clarence John TeSelle was born in 1887 in Wisconsin and was a professor at University of Florida from 1928 to 1958. He taught in areas such as legal ethics, trial procedure and techniques, evidence, military law and federal rules.

TeSelle passed away in 1961. His son, John TeSelle, earned his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering in 1947 from UF and is retired from the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Oklahoma City. Gene Moore and his fellow 1953 College of Law classmates honored TeSelle with a bust in the Fredric G. Levin College of Law library.