Background
Petersen, Howard Edwin was born on July 21, 1932 in Davenport, Iowa, United States. Son of Harry W. and Edith L. (Speer) Petersen.
Criminal Family and matrimonial judge
Petersen, Howard Edwin was born on July 21, 1932 in Davenport, Iowa, United States. Son of Harry W. and Edith L. (Speer) Petersen.
AB, Augustana College, 1954. Postgraduate, University Illinois, 1955. Juris Doctor, Northwestern University, 1958.
Bar: Iowa 1958, Illinois 1961, Indiana 1962, Supreme Court of the United States Court 1969. Registered private judge. Association Kopf & Christiansen, 1958-1961, Vail, Mills, Winters & Prince, Decatur, Illinois, 1961-1962.
Sole practice, LaGrange and Shipshewana, Indiana, 1962-1979.
Attorney LaGrange County, 1972-1978. Judge 35th Judicial Circuit, LaGrange, 1980-1995, temporary judge, 1995.
Commissioner labor State Indiana, 1996. Panel arbitrators American Arbitration Association, 1975.
Town attorney Shipshewana, 1965-1979.
Attorney Topeka (Indiana), 1968-1976, Wolcottville (Indiana), 1970-1979, LaGrange, 1973-1975;counsel LaGrange County Area Planning Commission, 1969-1979, LaGrange County Park and Recreation Board, 1970-1979. Adjunct moot court judge, professor NotreDame University, 1996. Association James Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association, 1965.
Finance chairman Girl Scouts of the Singing Sands, 1968-1970.
Trustee Lakeland School Corporation, 1970-1979, vice president, 1976-1979, president, 1978. Alderman City of Davenport, 1959-1960.
Member LaGrange County Republican party. Chairman Young Representatives, 1962-1964, chairman finance, 1968-1974, precinct committeeman, 1975-1979.
Legislation chairman LaGrange County Mental Health Association, 1972.
Associate James Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association, since 1965. Finance chairman Girl Scouts of the Singing Sands, 1968-1970. Trustee Lakeland School Corporation, 1970-1979, vice president, 1976-1979, president, 1978.
Alderman City of Davenport, 1959-1960. Member LaGrange County Republican Party. Chairman Young Representatives, 1962-1964, chairman finance, 1968-1974, precinct committeeman, 1975-1979.
Legislation chairman LaGrange County Mental Health Association, since 1972. With Iowa Air National Guard, 1958-1962. Member American Bar Association (criminal justice section, juvenile justice committee, family law section, co-chair family courts committee, member litigation secretary, member editorial committee Trial Practice Newsletter and Professional Liability Litigation Newsletter), National Association Counsel for Children, American Society Law, Medicine and Ethics Foundation, Indiana Bar Association (house of deals 1968-1984, 89—, legal ethics committee since 1977), Indianapolis Bar Association, Chicago Bar Association, LaGrange County Bar Association (past president), National Conference Juvenile and Family Court Judges (advisory committee judicial response to disproportionate incarceration of minority youth in American, bias committee, legal medical issues committee), Indiana Judges Association, Indiana Judicial Conference Improvement (juvenile laws committee 1981-1987, judicial ethics committee 1988-1995).
Married Mary Catherine Brown, December 27, 1959. Children: Holly, Sarah, Meg, Martha.