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moved to Louisville in 1898 and was educated in the public schools, including Male High School. He received his law degree from Jefferson School of Law in 1922.
He was appointed Assistant U. S. District Attorney in February 1927 and served until July 1, 1933, assisting in Federal Court in Louisville, Paducah, Owensboro, and Bowling Green, Kentucky.ñ
Frank ROPKE was elected Commonwealth Attorney in November 1945 and served six years in that position. In November 1952 he was elected Circuit Judge to preside over the Criminal Branch First Division and served five years. He was defeated for re-election in 1957 and resumed his law practice as a member of the firm of ROPKE, Goldstein and Poynter. He was again elected to thesame office in November 1963 and served another five years, resigning shortly before his death in Louisville in December 1968. Mrs. ROPKE died very suddenly on September 7,1953; Frank ROPKEmarried Mrs. Ruth Wood Boehm, who survived him, on September 17, 1954.
Frank ROPKE served in the Army in World War I as a second lieutenant of infantry and had been active in veterans affairs, being a past commander of Jefferson Post, American Legion. Being denied active service in World War II, he served as a member of Draft Board No. 69. He was a 33rd degree Mason and had been a board member of the Masonic Widows and Orphans' Home since 1944. He was a formerly president of the Louisville Bar Association and had served as president of Audubon Country Club. He had been a director of Louisville Fire Brick Works since 1944*. A member of Deer Park Baptist Church, he had previously been a deacon at Fourth Avenue and Highland Baptist Churches. Judge ROPKE is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Robert L. Mack of Homewoood, Illinois, and Mrs. Norman C. Updegraff of Louisville, and by three grandchildren: Elisabeth Conwell Updegraff, Robert Franklin, and David Karl Updegraff.
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