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

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.