James Ellsworth Noland (April 22, 1920 – August 12, 1992) was a United States representative from Indiana and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana.
James Ellsworth Noland
Indiana Southern District Court
Chief Judge — U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana
Born 1920 in LaGrange, MO
Died 1992 in Indianapolis, IN
FJC ID: 1774
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 3/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 79/year
Indiana Southern District Court · 1966–1992
Both charts share the same year axis. Opinion counts include only opinions in our corpus attributed to this judge so far — a year at zero can mean an attribution gap, not judicial silence. Influence typically outlasts the career: citations keep climbing after the last opinion.
- Gender
- Male
- Race
- White
Prior employment
- Private practice, Indianapolis, Indiana1951–1966
- Indiana State Election BoardMember · 1958–1966
- Indianapolis, IndianaFirst assistant city attorney · 1956–1957
- State of IndianaElection commissioner · 1954
State of IndianaAssistant attorney general · 1952- U.S. representative from Indiana1949–1951
- Candidate for U.S. House of Representatives from Indiana1946, 1950
- Private practice, Bloomington, Indiana1948–1949
U.S. Army1943–1946
Appointments
1966–1992 · Appointed by Lyndon B. Johnson (Democratic)Term ended: Death
Education
- Indiana University School of Law -- Bloomington (now Maurer School of Law)J.D. · 1948
- Harvard Business SchoolM.B.A. · 1943
- Indiana UniversityA.B. · 1942