Judge Charles F. Remy

Charles Remy was born near Hope in Bartholomew County, Indiana on February 25, 1860.  He received a bachelor’s degree from Franklin College in 1884 and a law degree from the University of Michigan in 1888. He was admitted to the bar in Bartholomew County and formed Hacker & Remy with Judge Marshall Hacker. In 1891, he married Deborah Henderson of Columbus and they had one son, William, who would later practice law in Indianapolis with his father.

In 1894, Judge Remy was elected to the Indiana House of Representatives from Bartholomew County and served for one term. In 1896, he was elected Reporter of the Supreme and Appellate Courts and served from 1897 to 1905. In 1905, he formed a law practice in Indianapolis with James M. Berryhill.

In 1918 he was elected as a Republican to the Indiana Appellate Court and served from January 1, 1919 to January 1, 1931. He was Chief Judge five times, for the November 1920, November 1923, May 1925, November 1927, and November 1929 terms. Following his tenure on the court, Judge Remy returned to the practice of law in Indianapolis for the next 17 years.

Judge Remy was a charter member of the Indiana State Bar Association and also active in the American Bar Association and the Indianapolis Bar Association. A long-time trustee of Franklin College, he received an honorary law degree there in 1905. He also served for over thirty years a member of the Board of Trustees for the First Baptist Church in Indianapolis.  He was a member of the Columbia Club, the Century Club, the Society of Sons of the Revolution, the Indiana Society of Pioneers, the Indiana Historical Society, and the Knights of Pythias.

Judge Remy went to work daily in his office on the Circle in Indianapolis into his late 80s. He died unexpectedly in Martinsville on September 28, 1948.

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