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Education: Valparaiso University (B.A. 1963; JD, 1966).
Admitted to Indiana
Bar and U.S. District Court, Southern District, 1966; U.S. District Court, Southern District of Indiana, 1969; U.S. Court
of Appeals, 7th Circuit, and U.S. Supreme Court, 1974; U.S. Tax Court, 1978; U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan
and U.S. Court of Appeals, 6th Circuit, 1985; U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, 1993.
Chairman and
Faculty Member, Indiana Continuing Legal Education Forum Programs; Instructor in the Division of Public and Environmental
Affairs, Indiana University-Purdue University at Fort Wayne, Indiana, 1977-1979; Faculty Member, National Institute for Trial
Advocacy, 1996; Assistant United States Attorney, Northern District of Indiana 1974 - 1977.
Member: Allen County
and Indiana State Bar Associations; Indiana Trial Lawyers Association; Emeritus, American Inns of Court (President, Benjamin
Harrison Chapter, 1993-94); Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers.
E-mail:
fjg@grayandfriend.com
Frank is a former Assistant United States Attorney
in the Northern District of Indiana. As a federal prosecutor, he conducted numerous investigations with the aid of federal
agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Internal Revenue Service and Treasury Department. In private practice
he has conducted internal investigations for non-profit and for-profit corporations. His trial and appellate experience covers
various areas of law including patent, real estate, probate and commercial litigation as well as white-collar criminal matters.
He is a fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers (limited to 1% of Indiana licensed attorneys) and has been
rated as an AV lawyer by Martindale-Hubbell since 1981. He was voted an Indiana Super Lawyer in business litigation and is
listed in Who's Who in Best Lawyers of America. Frank has served as a teaching faculty member for the National Institute for
Trial Advocacy and has been a panel member on numerous Indiana Continuing Legal Education programs.
Frank has
lectured on the subject of legal ethics and has been a member of The Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers for
over ten years. He has represented numerous doctors and lawyers on ethics and licensure issues. He has also represented public
officials, judges, teachers and law enforcement personnel on issues involved in the performance of their duties.
In August, 1995, United States District Court Judge William C.
Lee appointed Frank as Chairman of a panel of Special Masters to implement settlement discussions in an environmental Superfund
case that had been filed in the Fort Wayne Division of the Northern District of Indiana. The case involved over 1,100 defendants
in what was one of the most substantial Superfund cases filed in the United States, and the panel of Special Masters consisted
of over 50 attorneys from the State of Indiana. In 1986, then Congressman Dan Coats appointed Frank to serve as a member of
the Northeastern Indiana Drug Abuse Task Force for two years.
Frank has served since 1997 on the Merit Selection
Panel for the Northern District of Indiana to interview candidates and consider reappointments of full-time United States
Magistrate Judges. He chaired the panel in 1997 when Magistrate Judges Robin D. Pierce, Roger B. Cosbey and Andrew P. Rodovich
were reviewed for re-appointment and served again in 2005 for the review of Magistrates Rodovich and Cosbey.
Frank
serves on arbitration panels and as a civil mediator when requested by litigants and has served as Judge Pro Tempore for both
the Superior and Circuit Courts of Allen County, Indiana. He has chaired various Allen County Bar Association committees over
his thirty-plus year career and served as a representative to the House of Delegates of the Indiana State Bar Association.
Frank has served as corporate counsel for Not-For-Profit Corporations such as the Allen County-Fort Wayne Historical
Society and Northeast Indiana Emergency Medical Services.
In 1999, Frank received the Allen Katner Award from
the Indiana Soccer Coaches Association for over 15 years of continuous volunteer efforts to further the cause of high school
soccer excellence in the State of Indiana. He recently retired from his volunteer soccer coaching career after 22 years of
service.
During the Vietnam War, Frank enlisted in the United States Army and served with the Ninth Infantry Division
in the Mekong Delta. Frank's many citations and service awards include the Combat Infantryman's Badge, Bronze Star, Army Commendation
Medal for Valor and the Vietnam Cross of Gallantry.
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