James Emmert
American judge
James A. Emmert (September 26, 1895 – April 14, 1974) was an American lawyer, politician, and judge who served as Indiana Attorney General from 1943 to 1947 and as a justice of the Indiana Supreme Court from 1947 to 1959.
Biography
Early life and education
Emmert was born in Laurel, Indiana to Clinton B. Emmert and Alice Emmert (née Patterson).
Emmert attended and graduated from Clarksburg High School in Clarksburg and the Tennessee Military Institute in Sweetwater.
Emmert served in the First World War, working at a British military general hospital in France for twenty-two months.
Emmert attended Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois as an undergraduate. He got his legal education and degree from Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. While at Harvard, Emmert was a research student working under Felix Frankfurter, later an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. Frankfurter said that Emmert was "the best research student [he] ever had at Harvard."
Judicial service and later life
In 1923, after receiving his degree, Emmert opened a law practice in Shelbyville, Indiana. In 1925, Emmert was elected mayor of Shelbyville. In 1928, he was elected judge of the Shelby County Circuit Court.
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