Justice Frederick Landis, Jr.
(Eighty-seventh Justice)

Justice Landis was born January 17, 1912, in Logansport, Indiana, and died March 1, 1990, in Logansport.

He received both his A.B. (1932) and his LL.B. (1934) from Indiana University. He was admitted to the Indiana bar in 1934. He was the prosecuting attorney for the 29th Circuit from 1938 to 1940. He served as an Indiana State Representative in 1951, and as an Indiana State Senator in 1953 and 1955.³⁸⁴ He resigned from the Senate on April 13, 1955 to accept an appointment to the Indiana Supreme Court. He replaced Justice Levine, who was appointed amid speculation that Levine would serve for a brief time before he was replaced by
Landis.³⁸⁵ Justice Landis resigned from the Indiana Supreme Court on November 8, 1965, and on the same day accepted an appointment as judge of the U.S. Court of International Trade.³⁸⁶ He held that position until 1983.³⁸⁷

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.