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Justice Frederick Eugene Rakestraw

Justice Frederick Eugene Rakestraw
(Ninety-first Justice)

Justice Rakestraw was born August 29, 1923 in Lima, Ohio.

He received an LL.B. from Indiana University in 1947 and was admitted to the Indiana bar in 1949. He served as a circuit judge from 1955 to 1965. He served on the Indiana Supreme Court briefly in 1966. He practices law in Rochester, Indiana.451

451. INDIANA LEGAL DIRECTORY 429 (1990 ed.); Frederick E. Rakestraw, Proposed Model
Rules of Professional Conduct, 28 RES GESTAE 475, 475 (1985).

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.
 
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