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Judge Sarah Evans Barker has been a senior judge for the Southern District of Indiana for almost five years. Barker has served as a member of the Judicial Conference of the United States, Long Range Budget Committee, Standing Rules of Procedure Committee and the Judicial Branch Committee. Southern District of Indiana, photo courtesy.

Breaking the 'glass ceiling'

Over the course of her career in the judiciary system, Judge Sarah Evans Barker has worked to humanize the courts and has become a face for the Southern District of Indiana and the judiciary as a whole. 


Kileah Adkins tickles Lucien Miller after putting on his pajamas April 11, 2019, at their apartment in Muncie, Indiana. Rebecca Slezak, DN

The balancing act

At nearly 5 a.m. every morning, Kileah Adkins’ alarm — a small voice full of more energy than she’ll have all day — sounds from beside her bouncing in bed waiting for mommy. 




 Attorney General William Barr is sworn in to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 1, 2019, on the Mueller Report. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) 

Barr, Mueller trade barbs as Russia probe rift goes public

 WASHINGTON (AP) — Private tensions between Justice Department leaders and special counsel Robert Mueller’s team broke into public view in extraordinary fashion Wednesday as Attorney General William Barr pushed back at the special counsel’s “snitty” complaints over his handling of the Trump-Russia investigation report. 



Police secure the main entrance to UNC Charlotte after a shooting at the school that left at least two people dead, Tuesday, April 30, 2019, in Charlotte, N.C. (AP Photo/Jason E. Miczek)

2 dead, motive unclear in North Carolina campus shooting

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A student with a pistol and no immediately apparent motive killed two people and wounded four others at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte before campus police disarmed and arrested him, authorities said. The campus police chief said the suspect had not appeared on their radar as a potential threat.