Judge Allen Sharp M.A. '86
Robert Todd Duncan Alumni Achievement Award, 2004
Judge Allen Sharp received an undergraduate degree from George
Washington University and a law degree from Indiana University. He
has presided in civil and criminal jury trials in seven different
locations in four different U.S. districts as well as sat by
designation on three U.S. Appeals Courts. He began graduate work at
Butler in 1970 when he was serving as a judge on the Indiana Court
of Appeals in Indianapolis. He had completed about half of his
course work by 1973 when he became a federal judge and moved to
northern Indiana. In 1984, Judge Sharp began night classes once
again to complete his master's degree in history, with particular
interest in modern European history, Russian history and the
Holocaust. He serves as an adjunct professor of history for
Butler's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He is a recipient of
the illustrious Sagamore of the Wabash (1999) and has authored many
professional law journal articles. Judge Sharp has two daughters,
Crystal Catholyn Sharp Bauer and Scarlet Frances Thomas.
Updated 2008