John Edmund Fitzgerald Wood
A.B., Denison University, 1924L.L.B., West Virginia University, 1927
B.A., M.A., University of Oxford, 1929
A native of Staunton, Virginia, John Wood attended public school in Huntington, West Virginia.
After receiving a A.B. from Denison University, he studied law at West Virginia University, where he served as editor-in-chief of the West Virginia Law Review and was an associate member of Delta Kappa Psi.
After receiving his law degree from WVU, Wood studied at Christ Church, Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar. He received his degrees in jurisprudence.
Wood spent his legal career in New York City, where he was a partner in the firm of Dewey, Ballantine, Bushby, Palmer and Wood.