William Morris Sparks (April 28, 1872 – January 7, 1950) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
William Morris Sparks
Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals
Chief Judge — U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Born 1872 in Charlottesville, IN
Died 1950 in Rushville, IN
FJC ID: 2246
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 37/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 71/year
Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals · 1929–1950
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 · 1948
- Indiana Circuit Court, Sixteenth Judicial CircuitJudge · 1904–1910, 1914–1929
- Private practice, Rushville, Indiana1897–1901, 1910–1914
- IndianaState representative · 1901–1903
- Rush County, IndianaDeputy prosecutor · 1896–1898
Appointments
1929–1950 · Appointed by Herbert Hoover (Republican)Term ended: Death
Education
- Indiana Law School (now Indiana University McKinney School of Law)
- Read law1896
- DePauw UniversityA.B. · 1896