{{Short description|American judge (1884–1970)}} {{More citations needed|date=January 2025}} '''Curtis William Roll''' (August 29, 1884 – November 8, 1970) was a justice of the Indiana Supreme Court from January 5, 1931, to January 4, 1943. He was a Democrat.<ref name="Maurer">[https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/notablealumni/42/ Maurer School of Law Notable Alumni: Curtis William Roll].</ref>
Born in Fredericksburg, Washington County, Indiana, Roll received an A.B. from Indiana University in 1909, followed by an LL.B. from the Indiana University Maurer School of Law in 1912.<ref name="Ind">Minde C. Browning, Richard Humphrey, and Bruce Kleinschmidt, "[https://www.in.gov/judiciary/supreme/files/browning.pdf Biographical Sketches of Indiana Supreme Court Justices]", ''Indiana Law Review'', Vol. 30, No. 1 (1997), section reproduced in [https://www.in.gov/judiciary/supreme/files/justice-bios.pdf#page=72 Indiana Courts Justice Biographies page].</ref> He served as the county attorney for Howard County, Indiana from 1913 to 1914, and a prosecutor in Kokomo, Indiana, from 1912 to 1931.<ref name="Ind"/> He was elected to the Indiana Supreme Court in the Democratic wave of 1930.<ref name="Maurer"/> Roll authored two important opinions with "noted political repercussions", one denying a recount to 1938 U.S. Senate candidate Raymond E. Willis, and the other striking down a 1941 legislative effort to diminish the powers of Governor Henry F. Schricker.<ref name="Maurer"/> Roll declined to seek re-election in 1942.<ref name="Maurer"/>
Before and after his service on the Supreme Court of Indiana he engaged in private law practice. He is buried in Paoli, Orange County, Indiana.<ref name="Maurer"/>
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