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Supreme Court of Indiana
Division of State Court Administration
30 S. Meridian Street, Ste 500
Indianapolis, IN 46204
Dr. Elizabeth R. Osborn
Coordinator for
Public History and
Education Programs
Pho: 317.233.8682
elizabeth.osborn@courts.IN.gov
Sarah Kidwell
Outreach Coordinator
Pho: 317.234.3055
sarah.kidwell@courts.IN.gov
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Justice Biographies
Justice Michael Louis Fansler
(Sixty-ninth Justice)
Justice Fansler was born on July 4, 1883, in Logansport, Indiana, and died July 26, 1963, in Indianapolis.225
He attended the University of Notre Dame from 1901 to 1905 and was admitted to the bar in 1905.226
He held various positions, first, as an assistant prosecuting attorney and then as a Logan County Prosecutor, from 1906 to 1914.227 He entered private practice, until he was elected to the Indiana Supreme Court.228 He served two terms on the Indiana Supreme Court, from January 1933 to January 1945.229
He chaired the Indiana Judicial Council from 1951 to 1960.230
225. Deaths of Indiana Lawyers, RES GESTAE, July 1963, at 29, 29.
226. Id.
227. 4 WHO WAS WHO 298 (Marquis 1968).
228. 4 id.
229. 4 id.
230. Deaths, supra note 226, at 29.
Source: Browning, Minde C., Richard Humphrey, and Bruce Kleinschmidt. "Biographical Sketches of Indiana Supreme Court Justices." Indiana Law Review: Vol. 30, No. 1, 1997. View this source in PDF format.
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