Frank Sullivan Jr.: the second justice

1950 –

Frank Sullivan Jr. (born 1950): the Indiana Supreme Court's own biography opens with the tie in its own words: "Sullivan is a native of South Bend." He was born in this city in 1950 — the reference record gives 21 March 1950 — and his road to the court ran through the city's own congressional office: from 1974 to 1979 he served on the staff of Representative John Brademas, rising to administrative assistant and staff director. Dartmouth gave him the A.B., cum laude, in 1972; after the Brademas years he took the J.D., magna cum laude, at Indiana University's Maurer School of Law in 1982, practiced with Barnes & Thornburg in Indianapolis, and served as Indiana's state budget director from 1989 to 1992 under Governor Evan Bayh. Bayh appointed him to the Supreme Court, and on 1 November 1993 he became its 102nd justice. He served until 31 July 2012 — some five hundred majority opinions in nineteen years, by his law school's count — took an LL.M. at the University of Virginia along the way (2001), and retired from the bench to a professorship of practice at Indiana University's McKinney School of Law. In 2011, while still on the court, he was inducted into the South Bend Community Hall of Fame — the hometown honor his curriculum vitae records. The tie is printed at its exact strength: born here, formed in part in this city's congressional office, with the career itself belonging to Indianapolis and Washington. A living person; the entry states the public record.

Sources:

1. Indiana Supreme Court, justice biography of Frank Sullivan Jr., at in.gov, and the court's Annual Report 2005–06 — "a native of South Bend," the Dartmouth degree, the appointment and service.
2. Indiana University Maurer School of Law and McKinney School of Law, faculty and alumni records — the Brademas staff service 1974–79, the 1982 J.D., the budget directorship 1989–92, the 102nd justice's term of 1 November 1993 – 31 July 2012, the opinion count, the Virginia LL.M., and the 2011 South Bend Community Hall of Fame induction.