Walter Emanuel Treanor (November 17, 1883 – April 26, 1941) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
Walter Emanuel Treanor
Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals
Born 1883 in Loogootee, IN
Died 1941
FJC ID: 2407
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 13/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 26/year
Indiana Supreme Court · 1931–1938Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals · 1937–1941
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
- Indiana Supreme CourtJudge · 1930–1936
- Indiana University Law SchoolProfessor of law · 1922–1930
U.S. Army second lieutenant1917–1919
Appointments
1937–1941 · Appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democratic)Term ended: Death
Education
- Harvard Universityjd
- Indiana University School of Law -- Bloomington (now Maurer School of Law)LL.B. · 1922
- Indiana UniversityA.B. · 1912