Summary
A History of the Indianapolis Legal Profession
Unlike
more capital cities, Indianapolis was created not by the
natural settlement of pioneers, but by law. The state
legislature decreed it and Jefferson County Judge Jeremiah
Sullivan named it, combining the new state's title,
"Indiana," and the Greek word "polis,"
meaning city, to "indicate to all the world the locality
of the town."
On January 6,
1821, both the name and the location became official, and the
planned city, to be built nearly from scratch, became the seat
of government in the center of a fledgling state.
From the
appointment of its first justice of the peace in 1821 and the
construction of a two-story brick courthouse completed in 1825
at a cost of $8,000, lawyers and the law played an important
part in the development of Indianapolis as a world class city.
In this text,
the authors trace that contribution fro the early years of log
cabin justice to the sophistication of the bar in the dawn of
the 21st Century. They share tales of war and politics, of
discrimination and unity, of growth and expansion as the
Circle City prospered.
The members of
the Indianapolis Bar Association had enormous impact on the
city of Indianapolis, working in the courts, conference rooms,
councils and legislature and through philanthropic
organizations to help build a vibrant, world class metropolis.
This book highlights the people and events that shaped the
city through two centuries. Here are the stories that
illuminate and commemorate the Indianapolis legal community -
the trials, the laws, the people whose strengths and integrity
- contributed so much to the city.
Sandra
B. Cline, writer and journalist, is the author of
one previous historical reference, The Great Theatre,
and co-editor of another, Zionsville: The First One
Hundred Years. The former editor and publisher of the
Zionsville Times Sentinel, she was the first woman to serve
as president of the Hoosier State Press Association. She has
been honored by the National Newspaper Association, Inland
Press Association, Hoosier State Press Association and Women
in Communications. Cline's work appears in a variety of
local and regional publications, and she serves as
contributing editor of the Indiana Publisher. She holds both
master's and bachelor's degrees from St. Mary-of-the-Woods
College, and resides in Carmel with her husband,
attorney/arbitrator Stephen C. Cline.
Alicia
Dean Carlson is an award-winning, Indianapolis -based
writer and a former newspaper reporter for the Elkhart
Truthand the Indianapolis Business
Journal. Her articles have appeared in the Indianapolis
Star, Indianapolis Monthly, Indianapolis Woman
and the alumni magazine of the IU School of
Law-Indianapolis. Carlson edits and annual publication, NEXT:
Life After High School in Indiana, GRAD, a magazine for
college juniors and seniors, and The Ribbon,
quarterly newsletter of the breast cancer support group Y-ME
of Central Indiana. A graduate of Indiana
University-Bloomington, Carlson and her husband, Jim, are
raising two daughters in the city's historic Butler-Tarkington
neighborhood.
Sandra
B. Cline, writer and journalist, is the author of
one previous historical reference, The Great Theatre,
and co-editor of another, Zionsville: The First One
Hundred Years. The former editor and publisher of the
Zionsville Times Sentinel, she was the first woman to serve
as president of the Hoosier State Press Association. She has
been honored by the National Newspaper Association, Inland
Press Association, Hoosier State Press Association and Women
in Communications. Cline's work appears in a variety of
local and regional publications, and she serves as
contributing editor of the Indiana Publisher. She holds both
master's and bachelor's degrees from St. Mary-of-the-Woods
College, and resides in Carmel with her husband,
attorney/arbitrator Stephen C. Cline.
Journal. Her articles have appeared in the Indianapolis
Star, Indianapolis Monthly, Indianapolis Woman
and the alumni magazine of the IU School of
Law-Indianapolis. Carlson edits and annual publication, NEXT:
Life After High School in Indiana, GRAD, a magazine for
college juniors and seniors, and The Ribbon,
quarterly newsletter of the breast cancer support group Y-ME
of Central Indiana. A graduate of Indiana
University-Bloomington, Carlson and her husband, Jim, are
raising two daughters in the city's historic Butler-Tarkington
neighborhood. 
