Английская Википедия:Donald Hunter (judge)
Donald Herbert Hunter (October 21, 1911 – October 27, 1991)[1][2] was a justice of the Indiana Supreme Court from January 2, 1967, to September 6, 1985,[3] including service as chief justice for three terms during that period.
Early life, education, and military and political service
Born in Anderson, Indiana,[1][3] Hunter received an LL.B. from the short-lived Lincoln College of Law in Indianapolis, in 1937.[1][2][3] He was an initiated member of Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity from Butler University.[4] He represented Madison County, Indiana, in the Indiana House of Representatives from 1943 to 1944,[2] and served in an infantry unit in the United States Army in the European theatre of World War II, from 1943 to 1946,[1] receiving a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star Medal.[2] Still a member of the state legislature, in 1944 he was briefly "furloughed from the Army to attend a special legislative session".[1]
Judicial service
Hunter was a state circuit judge from 1948 to 1962, and a judge of the Indiana Court of Appeals from 1963 to 1966.[2][3]
He served on the state supreme court from 1967 until he reached the mandatory retirement age in 1985.[2][3] He was the first judge to serve on all three levels of the Indiana judiciary.[1] Hunter "distinguished himself as a progressive civil law judge", who "championed the rights of Indiana's working men and women", while also being viewes as "a conservative in criminal cases".[1] From 1967 to 1971, he also served on the Indiana Constitutional Revision Commission.[2][3]
Personal life and death
On October 14, 1941, Hunter married Violet Oemler of Covington, Kentucky,[5] with whom he had a daughter and a son. Hunter died in a retirement home in LaGrange, Indiana, at the age of 80.[2]
References
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- ↑ 1,0 1,1 1,2 1,3 1,4 1,5 1,6 "Donald H. Hunter, 80, ex-justice of high court", The Indianapolis Star (October 29, 1991), p. D-9.
- ↑ 2,0 2,1 2,2 2,3 2,4 2,5 2,6 2,7 "Donald Hunter, former justice", The Indianapolis News (October 28, 1991), p. C-3.
- ↑ 3,0 3,1 3,2 3,3 3,4 3,5 Minde C. Browning, Richard Humphrey, and Bruce Kleinschmidt, "Biographical Sketches of Indiana Supreme Court Justices", Indiana Law Review, Vol. 30, No. 1 (1997), section reproduced in Indiana Courts Justice Biographies page.
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ "Violet K. Hunter", The South Bend Tribune (August 3, 1995), p. C5.
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