Don Nelson Laramore

Don Nelson Laramore (December 22, 1906 – August 9, 1989) was a judge of the United States Court of Claims and later a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Education and career Born on December 22, 1906, in Starke County, Indiana, Laramore attended the University of Chicago and the Indiana Law School (now the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law). He was an official court reporter for the Indiana Circuit Court for the Forty-Fourth Judicial Circuit from 1925 to 1936. He was an attorney for the claims department of the Nickel Plate Railroad, Pennsylvania Railroad and New York Central Railroad from 1936 to 1942. He was a judge of the Indiana Circuit Court for the Forty Fourth Judicial Circuit from 1942 to 1954. Federal judicial service