Evan Alfred Evans

Evan Alfred Evans (March 19, 1876—July 7, 1948) was a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit from May 17, 1916 until his death.

After graduation from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he practiced law in Baraboo, Wisconsin from 1900 until President Woodrow Wilson appointed him to the circuit court. After 1936 he was the court's senior active judge (the title "chief judge" was created for the senior judge of a circuit Court of Appeals just after his death), and after 1939 he was the longest-serving active circuit judge in the nation. His record as longest-serving active judge on the Seventh Circuit stood for fifty years.