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