Glenn Edgar Hardin of Twin Falls, Idaho, died on June 14. He was 62 years old.

Hardin was born on Jan. 5, 1946, on the Fort McDermitt Pauite-Shoshone Indian Reservation in Northern Nevada to Ross E. Hardin and Christine (Crutcher) Hardin.

He married Sherry L. Kirkpatrick on Oct. 10, 1970, in Longmont, Colo. They lived in Longmont and Heatherwood, Colo. until 1974 when they moved to Fort McDermitt, Nev. They moved to Idaho in 1985, and to Twin Falls in 1987.

He graduated from McDermitt Combined Schools in 1964, after which he attended Haskell Indian College in Lawrence, Kan., graduating with a vocational degree in welding in 1966. Hardin then moved to Cheyenne, Wyo., where he worked in welding until he moved to Denver in 1967. There he worked at IBM until 1974.
After moving to Nevada, Hardin was Tribal Chairman of the Ft. McDermitt Reservation, as well as Housing Chairman for a time. He also worked for the Nevada Rural Mental Health Department as a Mental Health Therapist.  Hardin attended school anytime he could. He attended the University of Utah, National Indian Training Center and the National Indian Judicial College for classes in Judgeship, Criminal & Indian Law. He also attended Boise State University receiving a bachelor of arts in criminal law.

After moving to Idaho, Hardin worked for the Idaho Department of Corrections as a probation and parole officer in Pocatello, Twin Falls and Boise. He left the department in 1994 and then worked as a tribal court advocate for many tribes throughout Idaho, Oregon and Nevada. He sat on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals as an associate judge and also on the Idaho Supreme Court as a tribal law advisor. He served as chief tribal judge for several tribes in Idaho and Nevada. Although he officially quit working due to his health in 2005, he continued to offer his services and knowledge of tribal law to any and all who requested it.

Hardin loved to camp, fish, hunt and spend time with his wife, children, grandchildren, family and friends, gathering to eat and share stories of times now gone.

Hardin is survived by his wife, Sherry; children, Gerland and wife Karla, Christina Proctor and husband Tommy, and Charles and wife Amy; nine grandchildren; four sisters; and numerous aunts, uncles, nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his mother and father, two brothers, four sisters and many others in his large family.

Services were held on Thursday, June 19, at Amazing Grace Fellowship in Twin Falls. Internment followed at Sunset Memorial Park. White Mortuary, “Chapel by the Park” was in charge of funeral arrangements.