John Daniel Tinder

Personal

Birthday: 
1950
Birthplace: 
Indianapolis, IN
Race or Ethnicity: 
White
Gender: 
Male
Prior Employment: 

Law clerk, Office of the U.S. Attorney, Southern District of Indiana, 1974
Assistant U.S. attorney, Southern District of Indiana, 1974-1977
Private practice, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1977-1984
Public defender, Marion County [Indiana] Criminal Court, 1977-1978
Chief trial deputy, Marion County [Indiana] Prosecutor`s Office, 1979-1982
Adjunct professor, Indiana University School of Law, 1980-1988
U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Indiana, 1984-1987

Education

Name of School: 
Indiana University
Degree: 
B.S.
Degree Year: 
1972
Name of School - Second: 

Indiana University Maurer School of Law - Bloomington

For more than 150 years, the Indiana University School of Law has provided top-flight, transformative legal education. With just over 750 students, drawn from more than 100 undergraduate schools and from three continents, Indiana Law retains a distinctive sense of collegiality and community in the stimulating, cosmopolitan college town of Bloomington, Ind.

Degree - Second: 
J.D.
Degree Year - Second: 
1975

Judicial Career

Court Name: 
U. S. District Court, Southern District of Indiana
Court Name: 

Indiana Southern District Court

President Nominating: 
Ronald Reagan
Party Affiliation of President: 
Republican
Commission Date: 
8/10/1987
Termination Date: 
12/21/2007
Termination Reason: 
Appointment to Another Judicial Position
Court Name - Second: 
U. S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Court Name - Second: 

Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals

Commission Date - Second: 
12/21/2007
Retirement from Active Service - Second: 
2/18/2015