[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 10]
[Senate]
[Pages 14512-14513]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     TRIBUTE TO STEPHEN R. HEIMANN

  Mr. DONNELLY. Mr. President, today I wish to recognize and honor the 
extraordinary service of the Honorable Stephen R. Heimann, as he 
retires from the Bartholomew County Circuit Court after 25 years of 
distinguished service.
  Born in Monroeville, in Allen County, IN, he graduated from Wabash 
College and the Indiana University School of Law and ran a successful 
private law practice for 10 years.
  Since his appointment to the bench in 1991, Judge Heimann has 
embodied

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the most dignified ideals of our judiciary, dutifully demanding of 
himself the same high standards of conduct that he enforces and 
maintains for the community. The legacy he leaves goes beyond the 
thousands of orders and decisions he has rendered and extends to the 
way he treats others.
  Judge Heimann's contributions have made a difference in the local 
community and in legal circles. His involvement has included performing 
in the local ``Dancing with the Stars'' competition to raise money for 
charity, facilitating interfaith Christian and Muslim dialogue, 
delivering a keynote speech before the NAACP, providing marriage 
preparation counsel to young couples, and numerous other leadership 
roles on the boards of nonprofit organizations. He has also served the 
State's judiciary by chairing its board of law examiners, judicial 
ethics and professionalism, judicial education, and judges and lawyers 
assistance program boards.
  The Honorable Stephen R. Heimann has served the people of Bartholomew 
County and State of Indiana with great integrity, honesty, and 
professionalism. We are incredibly grateful for his leadership and 
service, and we wish him well in retirement with his wife, Ann, 
children Andrew and Emily, and granddaughter Nora.

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