Justice Walter Emanuel Treanor
(Sixty-eighth Justice)

Justice Treanor was born November 17, 1883, in Loogootee, Indiana, and died April 26, 1941, in Indianapolis.⁵⁴⁰

He received an A.B., with honors (1912), an LL.B. (1922), and a J.D. (1923), all from Indiana University.⁵⁴¹ In 1927, he earned a Doctor of Juridical Science (S.J.D.) from Harvard University.⁵⁴² He was a teacher and administrator in the Petersburg public schools for thirteen years.⁵⁴³ He served as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army during World War I.⁵⁴⁴ He taught law at Indiana University School of Law—Bloomington from 1922 to 1930, and was editor of the Indiana Law Journal from 1927 to 1930.⁵⁴⁵ He was elected to the Indiana Supreme Court in 1930 and re-elected for a second term in 1936. He served until December 27, 1937, when he was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, a position he held until his death in 1941.⁵⁴⁶

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.