Jesse Ernest Eschbach (October 26, 1920 – October 25, 2005) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana and a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
Jesse Ernest Eschbach
Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals
Chief Judge — U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana
Born 1920 in Warsaw, IN
Died 2005
FJC ID: 717
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 48/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 1,316/year
Indiana Northern District Court · 1962–1981Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals · 1981–2005
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, Warsaw, Indiana1949–1962
- Dalton Foundries, Inc.President/secretary/general counsel · 1959–1962
- Endicott Church Furniture, Inc.President · 1960–1962
- Fifty-Fourth Judicial Circuit, IndianaDeputy prosecutor · 1953–1954
- Warsaw, IndianaCity attorney · 1952–1953
- U.S. Office of Price Stabilization1951
U.S. Navy lieutenant1943–1946
Appointments
1981–2005 · Appointed by Ronald Reagan (Republican)Term ended: Death
1962–1981 · Appointed by John F. Kennedy (Democratic)Term ended: Appointment to Another Judicial Position
Education
- Indiana University School of Law -- Bloomington (now Maurer School of Law)J.D. · 1949
- Indiana UniversityB.S. · 1943