The University of Pennsylvania Law School traces its origins to a series of lectures delivered in 1789 and 1790 by James Wilson, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution. Wilson is credited with being one of the primary authors of the first draft of such constitution due to his membership on the Committee of Detail established by the United States Constitutional Convention on July 24, 1787 to draft a text reflecting the agreements made by the Convention up to that point. Wilson gave these "lectures in law" to President George Washington and Vice President John Adams and rest of the cabinet including Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson as a Penn Professor and during his time as an Associate Justice appointed by George Washington to the initial panel of United States Supreme Court and in 1792 was appointed as a "full professor of law" at Penn