Randall T. Shepard

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office = Indiana Supreme Court Chief Justice
term_start = September 6, 1985
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birth_place = Lafayette, Indiana
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alma_mater = Princeton University
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Randall Terry Shepard (b. December 24, 1946) is the Chief Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court.

Biography

Randall Terry Shepard was born in Evansville in 1947. Shepard is a seventh generation Hoosier. He graduated from Princeton University and from the Yale Law School, and earned a Master of Laws degree from the University of Virginia.cite web|url=http://www.in.gov/judiciary/supreme/bios/shepard.html|title=Indiana Supreme Court|publisher=IN.gov|accessdate-2008-08-08]

Shepard served as executive assistant to Mayor Russell Lloyd of Evansville, and later as a special assistant to the Under Secretary of the U.S. Department of Transportation.He was judge of the Vanderburgh County Superior Court from 1980 until 1985. He was appointed the ninety-ninth justice of the Indiana Supreme Court by Governor Robert D. Orr in 1985. He was chosen to become the Chief Justice of Indiana in March 1987. Chief Justice Shepard was a chairperson of Indiana's State Student Assistance Commission and a trustee of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. He has also served as chair of the ABA Appellate Judges Conference and of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar. He is currently the honorary chair and a member of the executive committee of the Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana. Shepard served as President of the National Conference of Chief Justices in 2005 and 2006.

Shepard is married and has one daughter, and the family lives in the exclusive Golden Hill Historic District of Indianapolis. He occasionally teaches law at New York University Yale Law School.

References

ee also

*List of Indiana Supreme Court Justices

External links

*cite web|url=http://www.in.gov/judiciary/supreme/bios/shepard.html|title=Indiana Supreme Court|publisher=IN.gov|accessdate-2008-08-08