Kirchner was an alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Michigan in 1876.

[1] From 1885 to 1886, Kircher worked as a Kent Professor of Law at the University of Michigan.

Kirchner worked as a professor of law at the University of Michigan from 1885 to 1906.

[3] Kirchner was conferred an honorary degree of Master of Arts by the University of Michigan in 1894.

[2] Kirchner died on July 21, 1920, in his home in Detroit, Michigan.