Courts in the Classroom
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

 

2011 Outstanding Public
History Project Award
from the National Council
on Public History

More Awards

Courts in the Classroom > Online Court History Museum > Supreme Court Justice Biographies > Justice James Peter Hughes Justice Biographies

Justice James Peter Hughes

(Seventieth Justice)

Justice Hughes

Justice Hughes was born December 18, 1874, near Terre Haute, Indiana, and died August 30, 1961, in Greencastle, Indiana.

He received a Bachelor of Philosophy (Ph.B.) from DePauw University in 1898 and an LL.B. from Indiana University in 1900. He was admitted to the Indiana bar in 1900 and practiced law in Greencastle, where he was a prosecutor from 1902 to 1911, and a circuit judge from 1911 to 1933. He then served on the Indiana Supreme Court from 1933 to 1936. He practiced law until 1941 and retired to Greencastle.361






361. 4 WHO WAS WHO, supra note 227, at 472; In Memoriam, 241 INDIANA REPORTS xl-xlii (1962).

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.