Justice Alfred J. Pivarnik
(Ninety-eighth Justice)

Justice Pivarnik was born in 1925 in Valparaiso, Indiana, and died June 3, 1995.

He received his law degree from Valparaiso University in 1951. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Army Air Force.⁴⁴⁴ He served as deputy prosecutor of Porter County from 1952 to 1958 and as prosecuting attorney from 1958 to 1962.⁴⁴⁵ He served as Porter Circuit Court Judge from 1962 to 1977, when he was appointed to the Indiana Supreme Court to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Justice Arterburn.⁴⁴⁶ Justice Pivarnik was the first justice to join the Indiana Supreme Court through a nonpolitical merit system.⁴⁴⁷ He retired in 1990 due to poor health.⁴⁴⁸

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.