Frederick Landis

Personal

Birthday: 
1/17/1912
Birthplace: 
Logansport, IN
Date of Death: 
3/1/1990
Place of Death: 
Carmel, IN
Race or Ethnicity: 
White
Gender: 
Male
Prior Employment: 

Private practice, Logansport, Indiana, 1935-1955
Deputy prosecutor, Twenty-Ninth Judicial District, Indiana, 1935-1936
Prosecutor, Twenty-Ninth Judicial District, Indiana, 1938-1940
U.S. Naval Reserve lieutenant, 1942-1946
State representative, Indiana, 1950-1952
State senator, Indiana, 1952-1955
Justice, Indiana Supreme Court, 1955-1965

Education

Name of School: 
Indiana University
Degree: 
A.B.
Degree Year: 
1932
Name of School - Second: 

Indiana University Maurer School of Law - Bloomington

For more than 150 years, the Indiana University School of Law has provided top-flight, transformative legal education. With just over 750 students, drawn from more than 100 undergraduate schools and from three continents, Indiana Law retains a distinctive sense of collegiality and community in the stimulating, cosmopolitan college town of Bloomington, Ind.

Degree - Second: 
LL.B.
Degree Year - Second: 
1934

Judicial Career

Court Name: 
U. S. Customs Court
President Nominating: 
Lyndon B. Johnson
Party Affiliation of President: 
Democratic
Commission Date: 
10/16/1965
Termination Date: 
11/1/1980
Termination Reason: 
Reassignment
Court Name - Second: 
U. S. Court of International Trade
Court Name - Second: 

United States Court of International Trade

Commission Date - Second: 
11/1/1980
Retirement from Active Service - Second: 
12/31/1983
Termination Date - Second: 
3/1/1990
Termination Reason - Second: 
Death