Judge Posey T. Kime

Posey Kime was born in Petersburg, Indiana in 1896. He attended Purdue University’s agriculture school for one year, taught school in North Dakota for a year, then worked in the automotive shops and steel mills in Northwest Indiana’s Calumet region. In 1917, he enlisted in the United States Army and saw action in World War I with the 123rd Heavy Field Artillery, 33rd Division. 

Upon his return from Europe, he entered Indiana University Law School, graduating as class president in 1922. He practiced in Evansville by himself and then formed the firm of Kime and Meyer with James H. Meyer of Decatur County.

In 1930, Judge Kime was elected to the Indiana Appellate Court, serving from January 1, 1931 to September 1938. He was Chief Judge for the May 1933 and May 1936 terms. 

During World War II, Judge Kime worked as a staff attorney for the Federal Power Commission in Washington, D.C.  Following the war, he spent a year in Japan, helping to draft Japan’s anti-trust code. In 1952, he began working at the Justice Department in the anti-subversive division.  

Judge Kime was a Presbyterian, a 33rd Degree Mason, and a member of the Knights Templar, American Legion, Acacia social fraternity, and the Gamma Eta Gamma legal fraternity.

Following a four-month illness, Judge Kime died at the National Health Institute in Washington, DC on June 8, 1958.