William D. Evans

EVANS

Posted By: S.Ferrall (email)
Date: 12/22/2003 at 11:28:16

EVANS, William D. --Judge of the Supreme Court, was born in Marquette county, Wis. 1852. In 1858 he came with his parents to Williamsburg, Iowa. Here he attended the public schools. In 1873 he entered the state university. While a student at the university he taught school and was an instructor in a number of teachers' institutes during vacation. He graduated from the liberal arts course of the university in 1878 and the following year took the law course from which he graduated in 1879. Following his admittance to the bar in 1879, he located at Hampton. In 1902 he was elected judge of the district court for the eleventh judicial district. During the year 1907-8 he was law lecturer at the state university. In September, 1908, he was nominated for judge of the supreme curt by the republican state conventon to fill a vacancy occasioned by the death of Charles A. Bishop. He was elected at the general election and by reason of statute served as chief justice of the supreme court in 1909, 1916, 1921, 1922 and 1927. Was re-elected in 1910, again in 1916. He is a republican in politics.

-source: Iowa Official Register, 1927-1928; Biographies of Supreme Court Justices

-transcribers note: There is a Williamsburg in Iowa co., Iowa also, I am posting to both counties because I don't know which is the correct one.