Wilbur Frank Pell, Jr.

Wilbur Frank Pell, Jr. (December 6, 1915 – September 25, 2000) was a United States federal judge.

Born in Shelbyville, Indiana, Pell received an A.B. from Indiana University in 1937 and a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1940. He was in private practice in Shelbyville from 1940 to 1942. He was a special agent in the Federal Bureau of Investigation in, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Birmingham, Alabama from 1942 to 1945, returning to private practice in Shelbyville from 1946 to 1970. He was a Deputy state attorney general of Indiana from 1952 to 1955.

On January 23, 1970, Pell was nominated by President Richard M. Nixon to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit vacated by John Simpson Hastings. Pell was confirmed by the United States Senate on April 23, 1970, and received his commission on April 24, 1970. He assumed senior status on July 31, 1984, and served in that capacity until his death, in 2000, in Evanston, Illinois.

Sources

• Wilbur Frank Pell, Jr. at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center.