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Saturday, January 27, 2007
Ind. Courts - "Pro Bono Commission honors Vigo judge"
Crystal Garcia of the Terre-Haute Tribune-Star writes:
TERRE HAUTE — When Judge Phillip I. Adler of the Superior Court, Division 2 became the judicial appointee for the Pro Bono Corp. of District 7 in 1997, he didn’t know he would become the longest-tenured judge in the state for pro bono.“It was supposed to be a two-year appointment, and as it’s turned out, it’s now grown into almost eight years,” he said.
Members of the Indiana Pro Bono Commission gathered Wednesday night in the Kahn Room of the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Student Union to for their annual event to honor Adler for his service.
District 7 includes Vigo, Clay, Parke, Putnam, Sullivan and Vermillion counties.
Adler’s plan for the district became the first in the state and has sparked an interest for other districts in the state to follow as well as other states such as New Mexico, Maryland and New York, said Indiana’s Chief Justice Randall T. Shepard.
“Judge Adler has a remarkable career of public service that among other things has reflected concern about the legal rights of individual citizens,” he said. “He seemed not only a natural at a project aimed at individual citizens, but eager to try something new.”
Posted by Marcia Oddi on January 27, 2007 10:42 AM
Posted to Indiana Courts