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Saturday, October 01, 2005
Ind. Courts - "Federal court clerk bid fond farewell"
"Federal court clerk bid fond farewell" is the headline to a story by Maureen Hayden in today's Evansville Courier& Press. It begins:
Not many people get to enjoy a retirement party with a guest list that includes burly drug agents, federal judges, a 2-month-old baby and a 94-year-old great-great grandmother. But given the cast of characters that Frances Gates Deason encountered in her 17 years as a federal courtroom deputy clerk and court clerk, it seemed entirely fitting.In her years in the U.S. District Court in Evansville, Deason gained a reputation for a kind of blind-justice approach to those she encountered, from judges to lawyers to criminal defendants to just plain folk off the street in search of a legal remedy to their woes. They were all treated equally under her law of respect, even when they didn't quite deserve it, said co-workers who gathered Friday at the Winfield K. Denton Federal Building to say farewell. "Lawyers and litigants are always nice to judges," said U.S. Magistrate William Hussmann. "They're afraid to vent their frustrations to us, so they vent instead at the clerks. But Frances could handle any of it."
Posted by Marcia Oddi on October 1, 2005 07:33 AM
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