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
Sellersburg, Indiana
Sellersburg is a town located within Silver Creek Township, Clark County, Indiana, Silver Creek Township, Clark County, Indiana, Clark County, Indiana, United States. It had a population of 9,310 at time of the 2020 United States census, 2020 cens ...
, Prentice attended
Indiana University
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Campuses
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, and received an
LL.B.
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from the
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
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in 1942.
[Minde C. Browning, Richard Humphrey, and Bruce Kleinschmidt,]
Biographical Sketches of Indiana Supreme Court Justices
, ''Indiana Law Review
The Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law (IU McKinney) is located on the campus of Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) in Indianapolis, Indiana, the urban campus of Indiana University. In the summer of 200 ...
'', Vol. 30, No. 1 (1997), section reproduced i
Indiana Courts Justice Biographies page
He served in the
United States Navy
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during
World War II
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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
National Conference on Uniform State Laws
The Uniform Law Commission (ULC), also called the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, is a non-profit, American unincorporated association. Established in 1892, the ULC aims to provide U.S. states (plus the District of Co ...
.
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
Tucson, Arizona
, "(at the) base of the black ill
, nicknames = "The Old Pueblo", "Optics Valley", "America's biggest small town"
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at age 95.
References
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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