Justice Leonard J. Hackney
(Forty-first Justice)

Justice Hackney was born March 29, 1855, in Edinburgh, Indiana, and died October 3, 1938, in Winter Park, Florida.³⁰⁶

He received very little public school education.³⁰⁷ In 1871, he was employed in the law office of Hord & Blair in Shelbyville, Indiana, where he later became an assistant.³⁰⁸ From 1873 to 1874, he was employed in the law office of John W. Kern in Kokomo, Indiana.³⁰⁹ He then became a clerk in the law firm of Baker, Hord, & Hendricks in Indianapolis and studied law there.³¹⁰

In 1876, he returned to Shelbyville, Indiana and opened a law office.³¹¹ He was elected prosecuting attorney of the 16th Indiana Judicial Circuit in 1878 and, after serving one term, resumed his private practice.³¹² On November 17, 1888, he took his seat on the bench of the 16th Indiana Circuit Court.³¹³ He was elected to the Indiana Supreme Court in 1892, assuming his official duties on January 2, 1893, and remained there until January 2, 1899.³¹⁴

In 1905, he became an attorney for the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago, & St. Louis Railway Company.³¹⁵

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.