Justice John G. Berkshire
(Thirty-eighth Justice)

Justice Berkshire was born in 1832 in Ohio County, Indiana, and died February 19, 1891, in North Vernon, Indiana.²⁵

He received a common school education in Rising Sun, Indiana and continued his studies at the law school at Asbury University, from which he
graduated in 1857.²⁶

Immediately after his graduation from law school, he moved to Versailles,
Indiana and opened a law office, which he occupied until 1864.²⁷ He then served from 1864 to 1882 as judge of the First and Sixth Indiana judicial circuits.²⁸ After losing his bid for re-election in 1882, Justice Berkshire moved to North Vernon, Indiana, and again opened a private legal practice.²⁹ He continued there until 1888, when he was elected to the Indiana Supreme Court.³⁰ He served on the court from January 17, 1889, until his death in 1891.³¹

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.