Gene Edward Brooks

Judge Gene Edward Brooks

Personal

Birthday:

6/21/1931

Birthplace:

Griffin, IN

Date of Death:

4/19/2004

Place of Death:

Evansville, IN

Race or Ethnicity:

White

Gender:

Male

Prior Employment:

U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant, 1953-1955
Private practice, Mount Vernon, Indiana, 1958-1968
Prosecutor, Mount Vernon, Indiana, 1959-1968
Referee in bankruptcy, Southern District of Indiana, 1968-1973

Education

Name of School:

Indiana State University

Degree:

B.S.

Degree Year:

1953

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:

1958

Judicial Career

Court Name:

U. S. District Court, Southern District of Indiana

Court Name:

Indiana Southern District Court

President Nominating:

Jimmy Carter

Party Affiliation of President:

Democratic

Commission Date:

10/5/1979

Termination Date:

12/31/1996

Termination Reason:

Retirement

Bankruptcy and Magistrate Services:

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge, Southern District of Indiana, 1973-1979