Robert Allen Grant (July 31, 1905 – March 2, 1998) was an American lawyer and politician who served five terms as a United States representative from Indiana and later a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana.
Robert Allen Grant
Indiana Northern District Court
Chief Judge — U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana
Born 1905 in Bourbon, IN
Died 1998 in Sarasota, FL
FJC ID: 900
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 6/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 88/year
Indiana Northern District Court · 1957–1998
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 · 1969–1972
- Private practice, South Bend, Indiana1930–1934, 1937–1938, 1949–1957
- U.S. representative from Indiana1939–1949
- St. Joseph County, IndianaDeputy prosecutor · 1935–1936
Appointments
1957–1998 · Appointed by Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican)Term ended: Death
Education
- Notre Dame Law SchoolJ.D. · 1930
- University of Notre DameA.B. · 1928