The federal bench from this ground

SEARCHED NOVEMBER 2026 · NEGATIVE AS PRINTED

The checklist asks for the federal judge from this city — the Grant pattern — carried separately from the congressional line. The search was run whole, and the result is negative for this ground. The Federal Judicial Center's Biographical Directory of Article III judges was searched by birth location for Granger, Indiana: no judge in the directory was born there. The district's own bench was then read for a Granger birth or residence: the Northern District of Indiana's succession, per the Judicial Center's charts, runs through Slick, Swygert, Eschbach, Parkinson, Grant, Beamer, Sharp, McNagny, Kanne, Moody, Lee, Lozano, Miller, Simon, Springmann, Van Bokkelen, DeGuilio, Brady, Leichty, Lund, Brisco and Olson — and the pattern judge himself, Robert Allen Grant (1905–1998), who sat on that court 1957–1972, was born at Bourbon, Indiana, on the Judicial Center's judges list, and was a South Bend lawyer and Notre Dame figure, not a man of this ground. Web searches pairing the directory and the district's judges with "Granger, Indiana" as birthplace or residence returned no holder. The negative prints as the finding: no federal judge born, raised or resident in the Granger designated place appears in the Federal Judicial Center's directory or the district record reached. The boundary fact stands beside it, at boundary size: the pattern is real one city over — Judge Robert A. Grant of South Bend, Northern District of Indiana, 1957–1972. Settling source, if a contrary document exists: the Judicial Center's Biographical Directory itself, whose birth and residence fields are the record of record for the question.

Sources: Federal Judicial Center, Biographical Directory of Federal Judges and list of judges (Grant, Robert Allen (1905–1998), birth location Bourbon, IN); FJC, U.S. District Courts for the Districts of Indiana — Succession Charts (the Northern District line as printed, Grant 1957–1972). Search record, November 2026: FJC directory searched for birth location "Granger, Indiana" (no result); web queries for a Northern District judge born or resident in Granger, Indiana (no result).