Richard Lee Young (born January 3, 1953) is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana.
Richard L. Young
Indiana Southern District Court
Chief Judge — U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana
Born 1953 in Davenport, IA
FJC ID: 2754
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 2/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 7/year
Indiana Southern District Court · 1998–
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
- Judicial Conference of the United StatesMember · 2009–2012
- Indiana Circuit Court, First Judicial CircuitJudge · 1990–1998
- Private practice, Evansville, Indiana1980–1990
- Evansville, IndianaCorporation counsel · 1985–1987
- Indiana Circuit Court, First Judicial CircuitPublic defender (part-time) · 1983–1985
Appointments
1998–2023 · Appointed by William J. Clinton (Democratic)
Education
- George Mason University School of Law (now Antonin Scalia Law School)J.D. · 1980
- Drake UniversityB.A. · 1975