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Judge Kirsch, '74, Announces Retirement from Indiana Court of Appeals
01/29/2021
Judge James Kirsch, ’74, has announced that he will retire from the Indiana Court of Appeals in Fall 2021. He has been an appellate judge for 25 years. A story about the announcement appears in Indiana Lawyer.
Judge Kirsch served as chief judge of the Court of Appeals from March 2004 through February 2007. He served on the Marion Superior Court Bench for six years before his appointment to the Court of Appeals by Governor Evan Bayh in 1994. Prior to that, he practiced commercial and business law at Kroger Gardis & Regas in Indianapolis, where he also served as managing partner.
Judge Kirsch is a past president of the Indianapolis Bar Association and the Indianapolis Bar Foundation and is a former member of IU McKinney’s Board of Visitors. He also has taught law in 30 countries on five continents and holds concurrent faculty appointments at the University of Tilburg in the Netherlands and Central European University in Budapest, Hungary.
