Sarah Evans Barker (born June 10, 1943) is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana.
Sarah Evans Barker
Indiana Southern District Court
Chief Judge — U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana
Born 1943 in Mishawaka, IN
FJC ID: 94
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 5/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 7/year
Indiana Southern District Court · 1984–2014
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
- Female
- Race
- White
Prior employment
- Judicial Conference of the United StatesMember · 1988–1991
U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Indiana1981–1984- Private practice, Indianapolis, Indiana1977–1981
- Southern District of IndianaFirst assistant U.S. attorney · 1976–1977
- Southern District of IndianaAssistant U.S. attorney · 1972–1976
- permanent Subcommittee on InvestigationsSpecial counsel to U.S. Senate Government Operations Committee · 1971–1972
- U.S. Sen. Charles H. Percy re-election campaignDirector of research/director of scheduling and advance · 1972
- U.S. Sen. Charles H. Percy of IllinoisLegislative assistant · 1969–1971
- U.S. Rep. Gilbert Gude of MarylandLegislative assistant · 1969
Appointments
1984–2014 · Appointed by Ronald Reagan (Republican)
Education
- American University, Washington College of LawJ.D. · 1969
- Indiana UniversityB.S. · 1965