Judge Norris to share Gettysburg facts at BWAHS meeting

By LENNY C. LEPOLA

News Assis­tant Man­ag­ing Editor

Judge Alan E. Nor­ris will present Get­tys­burg Odds and Ends — Strange Hap­pen­ings on the Bat­tle­field dur­ing the Big Wal­nut Area His­tor­i­cal Society’s Tues­day, March 12, meet­ing in the Myers Inn Meet­ing Room at 45 South Colum­bus Street in Sunbury.


When Judge Nor­ris cut back on his court case­load, he read Killer Angels and dis­cov­ered that his cousin, a Civil War fan, had fam­ily in Get­tys­burg. They began vis­it­ing the bat­tle­field sev­eral times each year to walk over the area and learn the tales and his­tory of this cam­paign. Judge Nor­ris will share these odds and ends in a Pow­er­Point pre­sen­ta­tion at the 7:30 p.m. his­tor­i­cal soci­ety meet­ing; his wife Carol will assist with the presentation.



Born in Colum­bus, Judge Nor­ris is a life-long Cen­tral Ohio res­i­dent. He grad­u­ated first in his class at Otter­bein, holds a cer­tifi­cate from the Uni­ver­sity of Paris, has a law degree from New York Uni­ver­sity School of Law, and has a Mas­ters of Law degree from the Uni­ver­sity of Virginia.
For 18 years Judge Nor­ris engaged in the gen­eral prac­tice of law, taught Busi­ness Law at Otter­bein Col­lege, and pub­lished numer­ous arti­cles on pub­lic affairs and legal topics.



Nor­ris served 14 years as a State Rep­re­sen­ta­tive; for six of those years he served as House Minor­ity Whip. Dur­ing his seven house terms he spon­sored such major leg­is­la­tion as Ohio’s new Crim­i­nal Code, the Divorce Reform Act, the Alco­hol Con­trol and Treat­ment Act, and the Small Claims Court Act. In 1972 Nor­ris was named Leg­is­la­tor of the year.
In 1980, Nor­ris was elected Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

Pres­i­dent Ronald Regan appointed Judge Nor­ris to the fed­eral bench on July 1, 1986. He serves the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

Cur­rently, Judge Nor­ris and his wife Carol reside in the Big Wal­nut School Dis­trict and are mem­bers of BWAHS.


All Big Wal­nut Area His­tor­i­cal Soci­ety meet­ings are held on the sec­ond Tues­day of each month and are open to the public.

The Myers Inn Museum is located at 45 South Colum­bus Street in Sun­bury, fac­ing the south­west cor­ner of the Sun­bury Vil­lage Square.


Cos­tumed docents give tours of the Myers Inn Museum and Gift Shop from 12 noon to 3 p.m. Thurs­days through Sun­days and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturdays.

To learn more about the BWAHS, visit < BigWalnutHistory.org >. Use the Local His­tory but­ton to learn more about east­ern Delaware County history.
 


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