J. Leroy Mills

 

Age: 59

 

Summary: U.S. federal judge appointed by President Ronald Reagan who had served on the U.S. Districted Court for the Northern District of Indiana since 1988 where he presided over a series of controversial trials of four Fort Wayne Supreme Court administrators involved in the courthouse's tax evasion scandal in the mid-1990's.

 

 

Cause of Death: Killed during a shooting rampage

 

Born: October 13, 1942

 

Died: October 3, 2001

 

Location: Fort Wayne, Indiana