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Woods, William Allan

educator, lawyer, jurist, state legislator, was born May 16, 1837, near Farmington, Tenn.

In 1862 he moved to Goshen, Ind., where he practiced his profession successfully, and in 1867 was elected a representative in the state legislature. In 1873 he was elected judge of the thirty-fourth judicial circuit, and served by re-election until 1881, when he was elected judge of the state supreme court. He was soon after made chief justice of that court, and in 1883 was appointed United States district judge for the district of Indiana, and moved to Indianapolis. He is now United States circuit judge for the seventh circuit.