Graduates of the Indiana University Maurer School of Law achieve greatness. Whether practicing law in a small family firm, an international firm with offices around the globe, a start-up tech company, or any number of other settings in and outside the field of law, our graduates make a difference. The graduates listed here are examples of people who have gone the extra mile, not just excelling in their workplace or community, but by leaving their mark on the larger national and international environment.
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Ewing Rabb Emison
Ewing Rabb Emison was a Hoosier, through and through. Emison was born in Vincennes on February 2, 1925, into a family with roots dating back to Knox County pioneers who arrived a dozen years before statehood. The Emison family law firm, established in 1819, is the 4th oldest continuous law firm in the United States and is today known as Kolb Roellgen & Kirchoff LLP. Rabb graduated from Vincennes’ Lincoln High School in 1942 and enrolled at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. He joined the U.S. Navy and continued his education through the Navy College Training Program, taking classes at the University of South Carolina, Murray State Teacher’s College, and Northwestern University. He returned to Greencastle in 1946 and received his A.B. degree in December 1947.
After DePauw, Emison enrolled at the Indiana University School of Law, receiving his LL.B. degree in 1950. He then joined his father in practice, in Vincennes, and remained at the firm for the next fifty years. Over those years, he became known as a tenacious trial attorney and public servant. He worked with the Indiana Legislature on matters important to the public at large and to the law profession. In particular, he worked for several years on interstate compacts between Indiana and Illinois.
Emison served as President of the Indiana State Bar Association in 1986-87 and worked for years to establish the association’s Committee on Opportunities for Minorities. He also worked to establish the bar’s Committee on Minorities. The ISBA later created the Rabb Emison Award, granted to a lawyer who best served the goal of assistance to the minority lawyer. At the age of 78, in 2003, the American Bar Association presented Emison with its Inspirational Spirit of Excellence Award. Ewing Rabb Emison was inducted into the Indiana University Academy of Law Alumni Fellows in 1993. Emison died September 1, 2010, appropriately in his beloved hometown of Vincennes.
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Fred Hodge Gregory
Born on the 4th of July (1925) in Indianapolis, Indiana, Fred Hodge Gregory was raised in Bloomington. He attended that city’s Elm Heights Elementary School and was a graduate of University High School (1944). He then served in the U. S. Navy as part of the 23rd Naval Construction Battalion on Guam. After the war, he attended Princeton University graduating with a bachelor's degree in political science in 1950. He then returned to Bloomington and enrolled at the Indiana University School of Law, receiving his LL.B. degree in 1953.
On January 1, 1954, Gregory opened his first law practice in Bloomington. He would remain a local attorney for more than 50 years. He was elected Monroe County Prosecuting Attorney in 1959, serving in the position until 1962. He then joined law firm of Rogers & Rogers, before moving on to become the Trust Officer for the Monroe County Bank. In 1979, Gregory opened another solo practice in Bloomington, where he primarlily practiced Elder Law. Gregory was passionately involved in the Bloomington community. He served as a member of the John Ashton Committee, which initiated changes in the management of Bloomington Hospital and the construction of a new modern facility, as well as chair of a committee studying the need for a mental health facility in Monroe County. He later served as the first president and member of the Board of Directors of the South Central Indiana Mental Health Foundation.
Gregory also served as Judge Pro Tem and special judge in various Monroe County courts. He was recognized for his exemplary pro bono work in 2001 by District 10 of the State of Indiana. In 2007, he received the Randall T. Shepard Excellence in Pro Bono Publico Award and in 2008 received the Distinguished Service Award from the Indiana University Maurer School of Law. Fred H. Gregory died in Bloomington in 2009.
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Jeanne (Seidel) Miller
Jeanne (Seidel) Miller was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, on October 4, 1925. In an eighth grade public speaking class she announced she wanted to be a lawyer – “an international lawyer and make a lot of money.” As it turned out, she never practiced international law and she certainly never became rich, but Jeanne Miller truly loved being a lawyer.
After graduating from South Side High School (1943), where she was an honor roll student each year, Miller attended Indiana University. Although she received her B.A. in 1946, she actually began taking law school classes as an undergraduate. As a law student she one of just three women in her class, was articles editor for the Indiana Law Journal, and was the first woman to be ranked number one in her class. She received her law degree in 1948, the same year she married Mickey M. Miller, a law school classmate.
After graduating, the Millers returned to Fort Wayne and started a family (their three children would all grow up to become lawyers.) Mickey began a firm in Fort Wayne, while Jeanne initially stayed home with the children. By the early 1950s, Jeanne decided to open a general civil practice in the nearby town of New Haven, Indiana. She would remain in practice, in New Haven, for the next 50 years. Along the way, Miller became a force for change in the legal profession in Indiana. She was the first woman to be elected President of the Indiana State Bar Association, she served as President of the Indiana Continuing Legal Education Forum, she served on the Disciplinary Commission of the Indiana Supreme Court, and she served four years as a member of the Indiana University Board of Trustees. In addition, she has been extremely active in Fort Wayne and Allen County community affairs, as well as service to Indiana University on both the Bloomington and Fort Wayne campuses.
Jeanne Seidel Miller was awarded the Ralph E. Broyles Medal for unique and significant contributions to the I.U. Fort Wayne campus in 1977 and the Indiana University Distinguished Alumni Service award in 1990. Additionally, Miller received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University in 1989, the same year she was inducted into the Indiana University School of Law Academy of Law Alumni Fellows.
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Robert Hurley McKinney
Robert Hurley McKinney’s name will forever be associated with legal education in Indiana. Since 1992, his name has appeared on a professorship at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law (The Robert H. McKinney Professor of Law) and in 2011 the Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis was renamed the Robert H. McKinney School of Law.
Robert McKinney was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, on November 7, 1925. He attended Shortridge High School in Indianapolis, graduating in 1943, before attending the U.S. Naval Academy, where he received his B.S. degree in engineering (1946). He served in the Navy until 1949, at which time he decided to attend law school. He enrolled at the Indiana University School of Law and received his JD in 1952.
McKinney’s legal career began when he went to work for Frank McHale, senior partner in the Indianapolis firm of McHale Cook and Welch. In 1961, McKinney became the Chairman of the First Federal Savings and Loan of Indianapolis and two years later helped start the firm Bose McKinney and Evans. In addition to his career as lawyer and banker, McKinney served in President Carter's administration in multiple positions related to federal home financing, culminating with a presidential appointment as Director of the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae).
McKinney retired as a Partner with Bose, McKinney and Evans in 1991. He retired as Chairman and CEO of First Indiana Corporation, the parent company of First Indiana Bank, in 2005. He served on the Indiana University Board of Trustees from 1989-1998, and holds honorary degrees from Butler University, Marian University, and Indiana University. Robert H. McKinney was inducted into the Indiana University School of Law Academy of Law Alumni Fellows in 1999.
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John Keith Mann
John Keith Mann was born on his family’s farm near in Alexis, Illinois, on May 28, 1924. A 1942 graduate of Alexis Community High School, Mann matriculated at Monmouth College (1942), just twenty miles south of Alexis. His college career continued in the U.S. Navy (1944-46) when he attended the U.S. Naval Training School in Boulder Colorado studying oriental languages. In 1946, Mann enrolled at the Indiana University School of Law, where his brother, William Howard Mann, was a professor (1946-1967). John Keith Mann received his B.S. in Law in 1948, and his LL.B. in 1949. While in law school he served on the student board of editors of the Indiana Law Journal (v.23 and 24) and was the Articles and Book Review Editor for v.24.
After law school, Mann clerked for Associate Supreme Court Justices Wiley Rutledge and Sherman Minton. He then entered private practice in Washington, D.C., before joining the U.S. Wage Stabilization Board. He taught law at the University of Wisconsin during the 1951/52 school year, before moving to the Stanford Law School in 1952. He spent the rest of his career at Stanford, retiring in 1988. In addition to being a professor, Mann was the school’s Associated Dean for Academic Affairs from 1961 to 1985 and its Acting Dean in 1976, 1981, and 1982.
Outside of academia, Mann served three U.S. Presidents (Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon) negotiating major labor disputes. In 1980, the Supreme Court appointed Mann as a Special Master to investigate a dispute between the State of Alaska and the federal government over control of offshore areas along the state’s northeast Arctic coast. His report has been credited with directly leading to the protection of the Alaskan barrier islands from oil drilling.
Mann was a member of the National Academy of Arbitrators and served two terms on the law school’s Board of Visitors (1976-1982). J. Keith Mann was inducted into the Indiana University School of Law Academy of Law Alumni Fellows in 1987. Mann died 2006 at the age of 82.
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John Leslie Duvall
John Leslie Duvall was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, on February 23, 1924. He graduated from Broad Ripple High School (1942), before enrolling at Butler University in the fall of 1942. While he would ultimately receive his A.B. degree from Butler (1948), he also attended the University of Maryland and the Citadel Military Academy as part of the U.S Army’s Army Specialized Training Program during WW II. After his discharge from the Army, he returned to Indiana, finished his studies at Butler, and enrolled at the Indiana University School of Law. He received his LL.B. degree in 1949.
After law school, Duvall entered practice at his father’s Indianapolis law firm. He eventually became a partner in the firm of in Duvall, Bell, Babcock and Payne. Duvall became involved in Indiana Republican politics in the 1950s, serving as Chairman of the eleventh district Young Republicans in 1953-54 and then Chair of the state Young Republican in 1957-58. He served as a precinct committeeman and held numerous party campaign positions. In 1967, he was elected to the Indiana Senate and remained a state Senator until 1985. Duvall chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee for a dozen years and authored and then secured legislative approval of a new criminal code and sentencing structure.
In 1985 he was appointed to the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission and from 1986 to 1989, he served as the Chair of the Commission. In 1995, he came out of retirement to practice with the Indianapolis firm of Lewis & Kappes. John Leslie Duvall was inducted into the Indiana University School of Law Academy of Law Alumni Fellows in 2004.
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Phil McClellan McNagny
Born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, on July 16, 1924, Phil McClellan McNagny, Jr. was born into a family of Hoosier lawyers. McNagny’s father and grandfather were attorneys and ultimately his brother (William F. McNagny) and his wife (Patricia Gates) would become attorneys. Phil McNagny graduated from Fort Wayne’s North Side High School in 1942. He attended the University of the South (1942/43), before serving two years in the U.S. Marines. Upon his discharge, he attended the University of Virginia for two year before enrolling at the Indiana University School of Law. He received his LL. B. from Indiana in 1950.
After receiving his law degree, McNagny practiced in the northern Indiana town of Angola for a few months, before joining his father-in-law's Columbia City firm Gates & Gates. From 1953 until 1959, McNagny served as U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana. McNagny's wife, Patricia, joined the firm, then known as Gates Gates & McNagny, in 1969. In 1975, President Gerald Ford nominated McNagny to serve on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana. He served on the court until his death on March 28, 1981.
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Frederick Eugene Rakestraw
Frederick Eugene Rakestraw was born in Lima, Ohio, on August 29, 1923. He attended public schools in Lima and was on the Ohio state championship debate team in high school. He attended Manchester College for two years before being called for military duty. Returning home from the war in 1946 he completed his undergraduate studies in Indiana University (B.A. 1947) and then received his law degree from Indiana in 1949. He then entered into private practice in Akron, where he joined a firm operated by William Deniston (IU Law, 1937).
In 1954 Rakestraw was elected Circuit Court Judge in Fulton County, the first Democrat elected to any position in that county in eighteen years. He was reelected in in 1960 and served in the position until 1965. In 1965, when Justice Frederick Landis Jr. resigned from the Indiana Supreme Court, Rakestraw was appointed to fill out his term. Although he served on the court for only 360 days (he lost the election in 1966), he served six of his twelve months on the court as Chief Justice, due to the regular rotation of that office.
At the age of 43, Rakestraw returned to private practice, joining into partnership with Albert and Eugene Chipman in Rochester, Indiana, and later a firm with Jesse and Lawrence Brown. In 1999 he was the recipient of the Indiana State Bar Association’s Golden Career Award. He died in 2004 and is buried at the Rochester I.O.O.F. Cemetery. The Fulton County Community Foundation annually gives scholarships in his name to students attending law school.
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Karl Edwin Applegate
Karl Edwin Applegate was born in Cicero, Indiana, on July 21, 1923. He was raised in Pulaski County and graduated from Winamac High School in 1941. That fall he enrolled at Indiana University, but with the outbreak of the war, he soon found himself serving in the Army Infantry. Injured in France, he returned to Indiana to complete his undergraduate degree in business management (1946). Applegate then enrolled at the Indiana University School of Law and received his L.L.B. degree in 1948.
Applegate spent his entire legal career in Bloomington, opening his first law firm in 1949 and retiring from his last in 2011. In addition to his law practice, Applegate served as U. S. Commissioner, Southern District of Indiana from 1950 until 1958. He was Deputy Prosecutor for Monroe County (1958-59) and Municipal Judge for Bloomington (1960-63). In 1965, he was elected State Representative to the Indiana General Assembly. In 1967, President Lyndon Johnson appointed him as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana, a position he held until 1970.
K. Edwin Applegate was an active civic leader and received numerous awards for his efforts. Included among the awards was the Indiana Outstanding Government and Civic Service Award (1992) and the Indiana Bar Foundation’s Distinguished Service Award for 50 years of service (1999). Karl Edwin Applegate was inducted into the Indiana University Maurer School of Law Academy of Law Alumni Fellows in 2011. Applegate died on July 9, 2011 at the age of 87.
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Warren Everett McGill
Warren Everett McGill was born in the tiny Clay County (Indiana) town of Center Point on September 10, 1923. Upon graduating from Center Point’s Sugar Ridge Township High School, in 1941, he enrolled at Indiana University. He graduated from Indiana with a B.S. in Business Law in 1944. McGill actually began taking law school classes at the Indiana University School of Law before he received his undergraduate degree. He received his LL.B. degree from the law school in 1945.
McGill's law career began with the South Bend, Indiana, law firm of Seebirt, Oare & Deahl (Barnes and Thornburg). He became a Partner in 1960 and retired in 1989. McGill primarily practiced in two areas: estate planning and corporate-tax-probate-finance law. McGill served as the Chairman of the Indiana Probate Code Study Commission from 1972 until 1990. As Chair of the Indiana Bar Foundation's Projects Committee, in the early 1980s, McGill was tasked with improving the dissemination of legal information to the rapidly rising older adult population. The result was the production of the IBFs Legal Reference for Older Hoosier. The book went through multiple editions, over the next twenty years, and became a standard source on the topic of elder law in Indiana. McGill was a fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, the American Bar Foundation, and the Indiana Bar Foundation. McGill also served as a Chancellor’s Associate for Indiana University South Bend.
Warren Everett McGill was inducted into the Indiana University School of Law Academy of Law Alumni Fellows in 1993. McGill died in 2000 at the age of 76.
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John Leo Carroll
John Leo Carroll was born in Chicago, Illinois, on April 6, 1922. He grew up in Hammond, Indiana, and graduated from Hammond High School (1940). Upon his high school graduation, he began his undergraduate studies at Purdue University, before transferring to Indiana University (B.A. 1946). In 1943, he entered the U.S. Army, serving as a combat infantryman and earning the Bronze Star and the Combat Infantry Badge for exceptional valor in battle. Carroll returned from the war in 1945 and enrolled in the Indiana University School of Law. He graduated, Order of the Coif, in 1948.
After law school, Carroll began his legal career in Evansville, where he became an associate with the firm of Walker and Walker. In 1952, he and Edwin Johnson formed the firm that became Johnson Carroll Norton, Kent & Goedde, P.C. Carroll served as the President of the Indiana State Bar Association (1983-84), as President of the Evansville Bar Association (1969-70), as President of the Indiana Continuing Legal Education Forum, and as a fellow of the American and Indiana Bar Foundations. He was a delegate to the American Bar Association’s efforts to support law reform in the Ukraine, traveling to Eastern Europe to assist Ukrainian lawyers in their efforts to convert to a free-market legal system. Carroll served as Indiana University School of Law’s first “practitioner-in-residence” and was a member of the school’s Board of Visitors from 1981 to 1985.
Carroll was named a Sagamore of the Wabash by Indiana Governor Rober Orr in 1988, and was also named a Kentucky Colonel by the state of Kentucky. He was inducted into the Indiana University School of Law Academy of Law Alumni Fellows in 1995.
John Leo Carroll died in Sarasota, Florida, at the age of 97 in 2019.
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Robert Anthony Lucas
Robert Anthony Lucas was born in Gary, Indiana, on February 7, 1922. He graduated from Gary’s Horace Mann High School in 1939 and then enrolled at Indiana University. Lucas served as Class President his senior year and received his B.S., with distinction, from IU in 1943. After college, he joined the war effort, serving in the United States Army and rising to the rank of captain.
Lucas returned to Indiana after the war and enrolled at the Indiana University School of Law in the fall of 1946. While in law school he served on the Student Board of the Indiana Law Journal (v.23 and 24), was elected to the Order of the Coif, and received his JD, with high distinction, in 1949. After law school, Lucas clerked for Judge H. Nathan Swain of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. He then opened a small firm in his hometown of Gary, specializing in probate law and estate planning. Over the next 40 years, Lucas, Holcomb & Medrea would grow to become one of the most respected firms in the state.
A leader in the legal community, Lucas served on the Board of Managers of the Indiana Bar Association and was a long time member of the Federal Judiciary. He was a member of the state’s Probate Study Commission that revised the Indiana Probate Code to reflect contemporary needs. He also served as a member of the Commission on Uniform State Laws
A dedicated alumni, Lucas served Indiana University, and the law school, in enumerable ways. He served as President of both the IU Alumni Association and the law school’s Alumni Association. He was elected to the IU Board of Trustees in 1967 and served as Vice President of the Board from 1969 to 1970. In 1970, he was elected to the Board of Directors of the Indiana University Foundation, serving in that position for more than ten years. In 1971, Lucas was appointed to the Indiana Higher Education Commission. Lucas received the University Distinguished Alumni Service award in 1982 and the IU Northwest Distinguished Alumni Service Award in 1983. In 1988, Lucas was inducted into the law school’s Academy of Law Alumni Fellows and was presented an honorary doctor of laws degree in 1994. Lucas established an endowed professorship for the Law School in 1992.
Robert A. Lucas died on March 10, 1999.
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William Forgy McNagny
William Forgy McNagny was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, on January 21, 1922. McNagny graduated from the Culver Military Academy in Culver, Indiana, before enrolling at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. After two years at Swarthmore, McNagny left to serve as an officer in the US Army. He was discharged in 1945, returned to Indiana, and enrolled at the Indiana University School of Law. McNagny received his LL.B. degree, with high distinction, membership in the Order of the Coif, first in his class, in 1947.
After law school, McNagny returned to his hometown and began to practice in the firm that would become Barrett and McNagny. McNagny career at the firm would last more than 50 years as he gained a reputation as a successful and tenacious trial lawyer. His firm called him “a commanding presence in the courtroom, a pillar of the legal profession, and a man devoted to his community and his family.” He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, a Diplomat of the Indiana Defense Trial Counsels, and a member of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers. McNagny served as Fort Wayne's city attorney from 1952 until 1960. For many years, he served on the Indiana State Board of Law Examiners and was a past president of the group. In 1991, he received the Ralph E. Broyles Medal for "unique and significant contributions" to Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, and in 1992 he was inducted into the Indiana University School of Law Academy of Law Alumni Fellows. In 2009, William F. McNagny was named a “Legendary Lawyer” by the Indiana Bar Foundation.
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James Ellsworth Noland
James Ellsworth Noland was born in LaGrange, Missouri, in 1920. Raised in a farming family struggling to survive, the family moved around throughout the 1920s, with stops in Roachdale, Indiana (1923), Spencer, Indiana (1926), and finally Bloomington (1934). Nolan’s father set up practice as a dentist while his son excelled at Bloomington High School. In 1938 he entered Indiana University and landed a job in the campus bookstore and later managed the men’s lounge in the student union. As part of a three year pre-law curriculum, Judge Noland majored in government with a minor in journalism. He began law school in 1941. When World War II broke out, Nolan was accepted into a reserve officers training program offered by the Harvard Graduate Business School. Noland completed the course as part of the last class to receive a full master’s degree before entering the service in World War II, while also mastering the requirements to be a quartermaster.
After the war Nolan ran unsuccessfully for Congress in Indiana’s 7th district. He then decided to return to Law School from where he graduated in August of 1948. Three months later he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as one of its youngest members. Sworn into the Indiana bar on December 7, 1948, he went, as he put it, “from law school direct to the United States Congress.” Nolan was defeated at his first re-election attempt in 1950, and opened a private practice in Indianapolis and stayed involved in state politics. During the 1950s and 60s he served in various city/state positions, including Indianapolis Assistant City Attorney, Assistant State Attorney General, and State Election Commissioner.
In 1966 he was appointed to the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana by President Lyndon B. Johnson. He was named Chief Judge in 1984 and served in that capacity until 1986 when he took senior status. He died in Indianapolis in 1992 and is interned in that city's Crown Hill Cemetery.
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Jesse Ernest Eschbach
Jesse E. Eschbach was born on October 26, 1920 in Warsaw, Kosciusko County, Indiana. He attended school in Warsaw, and then enrolled at Indiana University, receiving his degree from the School of Business in 1943. He then enlisted in the U.S. Navy, serving for two years as a Gunnery and Executive Officer on a minesweeper. Following his discharge, he enrolled at the Indiana University School of Law at Bloomington, receiving his J.D. in 1949. He was President of his class and he was elected to the Order of the Coif. He also served on the editorial staff for the Indiana Law Journal. After graduation he returned home to Warsaw and began his legal and business career. He practiced law for 13 years, and was President of both the Warsaw Chamber of Commerce and the Rotary Club. In 1959 and 1960 he served on the Labor Relations Committee of the United States Chamber of Commerce.
In March 1962, President John Kennedy nominated Eschbach to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana. He was swiftly confirmed by the U.S. Senate, serving for nearly 20 years on bench, including seven years as chief judge. In October 1981, President Ronald Reagan nominated him to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Eschbach served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the remainder of his life, assuming senior status in November 1985. Judge Eschbach served his alma mater as a member of the Board of Trustees from 1965 to 1970, and also by serving on the Law School’s Board of Visitors.
Judge Eschbach died in Florida on October 25, 2005. He was interred at the Oakwood Cemetery in Warsaw, Indiana.
Jesse Eschbach was honored by Indiana University with the Distinguished Alumni Service Award in 1984. He was inducted into the Law School’s Academy of Law Alumni Fellows in 1985, and he received an honorary LL.D. degree from Indiana University in 1986.
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John Edward Roush
J. Edward Roush was born on September 12, 1920 in Barnsdall, Osage County, Oklahoma. He graduated from Huntington High School, Huntington, Indiana in 1938. He then enrolled in Huntington College, receiving his A.B. in 1942. After graduation he enlisted in the U.S. Army, serving as a combat infantry officer in Europe, including being in the Battle of the Bulge. His unit was cutoff and surrounded by the Germans for five days. Roush was not wounded, but he did suffer frostbite in both feet requiring a four-month hospitalization. Roush received a Bronze Star for his actions, and then he was discharged from active duty in 1946 (he continued to serve in the Reserves). He enrolled in the Indiana University, Bloomington School of Law, earning his LL.B. in 1949.
In 1948, he ran for and was elected to the Indiana House of Representatives. A candidate for reelection, he had to withdraw in 1950 when he was recalled to active duty during the Korean War. In 1954 he was elected Huntington County prosecutor, and then in 1958 he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. He was reelected four times, but then lost in 1968 when his district was redrawn by the General Assembly. In 1970, he ran again and was elected. He was reelected two more times, and then was defeated for reelection in 1976 by Dan Quayle. Roush returned to Huntington to resume his law practice.
Roush’s tenure in Congress was noted for his votes safeguarding natural resources including preserving the Indiana Dunes and authoring legislation to create three different reservoirs in north-central Indiana. He supported the national legislation sponsored by presidents Kennedy and Johnson, including civil rights legislation. During his second tenure he continued to support environmental legislation, and supported ending the Vietnam War. He also was responsible for establishing the 911 emergency telephone number.
J. Edward Roush died on March 26, 2004 in Huntington, Indiana. He was interred at Pilgrim’s Rest Cemetery in Huntington. In 1996 he was inducted into the Law School’s Academy of Law Alumni Fellows. In 1997 Huntington Lake (one of the reservoirs he authored legislation to create) was renamed J. Edward Roush Lake.
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John Woodburn Houghton
John Woodburn Houghton was born in Vincennes, Indiana, on March 30, 1920. After graduating from Huntington High School in Huntington, Indiana, Houghton attended Huntington College for his first year of college. He then transferred to Indiana University, where he graduated with an A.B. degree in 1941. Next, he enrolled at the Indiana University School of Law and received his L.L.B. degree, with distinction, in December of 1942. In law school, Houghton was President of the IU Law Club, a member of Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity, and served as Editor-in-Chief of the Indiana Law Journal (v.18).
After law school, Houghton joined the Indianapolis firm Barnes, Hickam, Pantzer & Boyd. He remained at the firm until 1999, serving as a partner for 36 years. He specialized in litigation and probate law and headed the firm’s litigation department from 1980 to 1987. Houghton served as President of the Lawyers Association of Indianapolis from 1952 to 1953, the Indianapolis Legal Aid Society in 1959, and the Indianapolis Bar Association in 1961. He was the General Chairman of the Indiana Bar Association’s House of Delegates in 1970-71. In 1993, he received the 50-Year Award from the Indiana State Bar Association.
Houghton served on the Law School’s Board of Visitors from 1975 to 1987, and again from 1994 to 2001, and was inducted into the Indiana University School of Law Academy of Law Alumni Fellows in 1995. John Woodburn Houghton died in 2009 at the age of 89.
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Jean Elizabeth (McGrew) Stoffregen
Jean Elizabeth (McGrew) Stoffregen was born in Chicago, Illinois, on October 14, 1919. After graduating (1936) from York Community High School, in Elmhurst, Illinois, she enrolled at Indiana University. Stoffregen graduated, Phi Beta Kappa, with an A.B. from I.U. in 1940. Stoffregen joined the Fellowship of Reconciliation, and traveled to Washington to protest WWII in the early 1940s. In 1941, she enrolled at the Law School of the University of Chicago, before transferring to the Indiana University Law School in the summer of 1941. She received her J.D. from the law school in 1942.
Stoffregen began her legal career clerking for Indiana Supreme Court Justice Frank Richman, before working for the Diamond Chain and Manufacturing Company in Indianapolis. In 1947, Judge Richman, who had been appointed Judge of the American Military Tribunal, in Nuremberg, Germany, asked Stoffregen if she would assist him. Stoffregen became one of the few women to work on the trials. Additionally, she traveled throughout the wore-torn European continent, assisting residents displaced by the war with emigration documentation and processing. Upon her return to the U.S., she continued her humanitarian efforts to assist refugees and immigrants in their efforts to rebuild their lives.
After her marriage to David Stoffregen, in 1949, she joined her husband in the practice of Quakerism for the next sixty years, and remained active in causes relating to peace and social justice. While in her 60's she went to graduate school and earned a Master's degree in Social Work. Jean McGrew Stoffregen died on October 4, 2008.
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Rupert Vance Hartke
Vance Hartke was born on May 31, 1919 in Stendal, Pike County, Indiana. He attended public schools in Stendal, and then he attended and graduated from Evansville College (now the University of Evansville) in 1940. From 1942 to 1946 he served in the United States Navy and the United States Coast Guard, rising to the rank of lieutenant.
With the conclusion of World War II, Hartke entered the Indiana University School of Law at Bloomington, graduating in 1948. He began his law practice in Evansville. He served as the deputy prosecuting attorney for Vanderburgh County from 1950 to 1951, and then he was elected mayor of Evansville, serving from 1956 to 1958. In 1958 he was elected to the United States Senate, replacing fellow Indiana University Law School alumnus William Jenner who chose to retire.
Hartke served in the United States Senate for 12 years, from 1959 to 1977. He had a liberal voting record, supporting Medicare, Medicaid, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. He also supported student loan programs, improved veterans benefits, Head Start, increased access to kidney dialysis, and safety enhancements to automobiles, including the installation of seat belts.
Hartke became an early outspoken critic of the Vietnam War, resulting in a fallout with President Lyndon Johnson after having initially established a strong working relationship with Johnson when he was the Senate Majority Leader. His opposition to the war was not popular in Indiana and he was narrowly reelected in 1970. In 1976, he lost his seat to Indianapolis mayor Richard Lugar.
After he left the Senate, Hartke chose to stay in the Washington D.C. area to practice law. He died on July 27, 2003 in Falls Church, Virginia. He was interred at Arlington National Cemetery.