The town court: an active court, two named judges, and a public admonition

301 MICHIGAN STREET · THE JUDGES OF RECORD, 1995–2019 · THE CURRENT JUDGE A NAMED GAP

Walkerton keeps one of Indiana's remaining town courts, and it is active: the Indiana Judicial Branch lists the Walkerton Town Court at 301 Michigan Street, phone 574-586-2340, and the county prosecutor's office publishes a separate deferral procedure for citations written into it. Town court judges are elected, and the two the record names are both instructive. Daniel P. Chamberlin held the bench through the State-audited years: the State Board of Accounts' Schedule of Officials prints his term as January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2019. Before him, Roger L. Huizenga's tenure ended in discipline that is part of the county's public record: on June 22, 2009, the Indiana Commission on Judicial Qualifications publicly admonished Judge Huizenga — he had employed his wife as his court clerk from November 1995 to March 13, 2009, had held an ex parte conversation with a defendant, and had assumed the prosecutor's role in negotiating her case. The admonition is told here at the size the government record gives it; its criminal-justice thread belongs to the crime pass. Who holds the bench in November 2026 was not established in any source reached — no judge's name rides the court's current listings — and the seat is carried as GAP-WKGOV-3, settled by the Judicial Branch's directory entry for the court and the Clerk's election records for the town judge's race.

Sources:

1. Indiana Judicial Branch, court directory: Walkerton Town Court, 301 Michigan Street, 574-586-2340 — the court's active listing.
2. Indiana State Board of Accounts, audit report, Town of Walkerton, 2016–2018 (B54184), Schedule of Officials: Daniel P. Chamberlin, Town Court Judge, 01-01-16 to 12-31-19.
3. Indiana Commission on Judicial Qualifications, public admonition of Roger L. Huizenga (June 22, 2009), secure.in.gov/courts: the clerk employment, the ex parte conversation, and the assumed prosecutor's role.
4. St. Joseph County Prosecutor, deferral program materials: the separate procedure for Walkerton Town Court citations.