[1] Corrigan returned to Cleveland in 1926, passed the Ohio bar, and had a private practice as a trial and appeals lawyer from 1926 to 1956.

He landed on Normandy beach on June 6, 1944, and fought in campaigns in northern France, Ardennes, Rhineland and central Europe.

[1] In 1956, Corrigan was elected a judge of the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas, serving from 1957 to 1963.

[1] In June 1969, Ohio Supreme Court Associate Justice Charles B. Zimmerman died.

Governor Jim Rhodes appointed Corrigan to fill the unexpired term on September 11, 1969.