Dixon W. Prentice (June 3, 1919 – July 20, 2014) was an American judge who served as an Associate Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court from 1971 to 1986. Born in

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, Prentice attended

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, and received an

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from the

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in 1942.Minde C. Browning, Richard Humphrey, and Bruce Kleinschmidt,
Biographical Sketches of Indiana Supreme Court Justices
, ''

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'', Vol. 30, No. 1 (1997), section reproduced i
Indiana Courts Justice Biographies page
He served in the

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during

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, from 1942 to 1946, after which he practiced law in Sellersburg until his appointment to the Supreme Court of Indiana, in 1970. During his tenure on the Court, he served as a commissioner of the

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. He was also "one of the driving forces" behind the adoption of the "lazy judge rule", which enabled parties to seek the substitution of a judge who they considered to be too slow-acting in their case. Prentice resigned from the court in 1985, and died on July 20, 2014, in

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at age 95.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Prentice, Dixon 1919 births 2014 deaths Justices of the Indiana Supreme Court Indiana Democrats 20th-century American judges Indiana University Maurer School of Law alumni United States Navy personnel of World War II