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| Charles Blackwelder |
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| Present Employment |
| 1980 - Present |
Managing Partner, Blackwelder, Campbell & Leavitt, P.C.
This is a five member law firm engaged in the general practice of law with emphasis in providing legal, tax and transactional services to small businesses. The firm performs a substantial amount of real estate and commercial law; civil litigation; business and tax counseling, and wills, trusts and estate planning.
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| 1991 - Present |
President, CFS, LLC
This is a licensed real estate brokerage, investment and management company that has over $24 million in residential and commercial properties.
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| Previous Employment |
| 1980 - 1982 |
Staff Attorney (part-time), Indianapolis Legal Aid Society
Represented clients who were unable to afford private counsel in such matters as divorce, child support, landlord/tenant disputes, social security disability and employment discrimination.
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| 1981 - 1993 |
Public Defender (part-time), Marion County Municipal Court #15
Represented indigent defendants charged with "D" felonies and misdemeanors.
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| 1979 - 1980 |
Associate Attorney, Howell & Austgen, P.C.
Four member law firm concentrating in taxation, business & corporate law, estate planning and administration.
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| 1974 - 1979 |
Federal Probation Officer, U.S. District Court
Southern District of Indiana, Indianapolis, Indiana.
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| 1973 - 1979 |
Ad hoc Instructor
Taught criminal justice courses at Anderson University, Anderson, Indiana; Indiana Judicial Center, Indianapolis, Indiana; and Law Enforcement Training Academy, Plainfield, Indiana.
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| 1973 - 1974 |
Director of Training, Indiana Department of Correction
Designed and established the Indiana Correctional Training Institute, which provided personal and professional development for the Department's 1800 employees, through a systematic and continuous education and training prescription. Developed plans to make college degree programs available behind the prison walls to both inmates and staff, through a consortium of colleges and universities and the Indiana Higher Education Telecommunication System.
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| 1971 - 1973 |
Correctional Counselor, Indiana Youth Center
Plainfield, Indiana. Special responsibility: served as facilitator in drug encounter groups for heroin addicts.
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| Military Service: |
| 1966 - 1971 |
Captain, United States Marine Corps
Achievements:
- Naval Aviator
- Distinguished Flying Cross
- Forty-two Air Medals
- Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry
- Twelve additional combat unit decorations
- 842 combat missions in Southeast Asia
- Qualified to fly jet and rotary-wing aircraft
Special Assignments:
- Personal pilot for Commanding General, Third Marine Division
- Tactical Air Coordinator, First Marine Air Wing
- Jet Flight Instructor, Naval Air Training Command
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| Education |
| 1978 |
Doctor of Jurisprudence, Indiana University Law School, Indianapolis, Indiana
Licensed to practice in all State and Federal Courts in Indiana, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. Tax Court
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| 1973 |
Master of Science (Criminology), Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana
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| 1966 |
Bachelor of Arts (Sociology), Anderson University, Anderson, Indiana
Activities: Student government, football, wrestling and baseball (team captain)
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