Justice Dan Collins Flanagan
(Eighty-third Justice)

Justice Flanagan was born April 23, 1899 in Lafayette, Indiana, and died February 28, 1960 in Fort Wayne, Indiana.²³¹

Upon graduation from high school in Frankfort, he enlisted in the armed services, and served as a sergeant in World War I.²³² In 1921, he received an LL.B. from Benjamin Harrison Law School (now Indiana University School of Law—Indianapolis) and passed the bar.²³³

He served as a deputy prosecutor in both Fort Wayne and Allen County, Indiana.²³⁴ He was also the county attorney for Allen County in 1940.²³⁵ He taught at Valparaiso University and at the University of Notre Dame.²³⁶ He was appointed to, and served on the Appellate Court of Indiana from 1941 to 1949, and on the Indiana Supreme Court from 1953 until January of 1955.²³⁷ He returned to private practice in Fort Wayne between his court terms and following his tenure on the supreme court, continuing to practice until his death in 1960.²³⁸

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.