Van Devanter, << `van` dih VAN tuhr, >> Willis (1859-1941), served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1911 to 1937. His opinions as a Supreme Court justice were consistently conservative. He also served from 1903 to 1910 as a federal circuit judge. Van Devanter was born in Marion, Indiana, on April 17, 1859. He graduated from DePauw University and the Cincinnati Law School. He practiced law in Indiana and Wyoming, and served as chief justice of the Supreme Court of Wyoming in 1889 and 1890. He died in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 8, 1941.
