Incumbent Candidate for Vanderburgh County Prosecutor

Stan Levco, a frequent competitor in local running races knows the value of perseverance and planning. His health and his resolve to make the best decisions possible in every competitive situation that his life presents him with has been formed and validated in his out of uniform pastime of distance running. Endurance athletic training is perhaps the best training for a professional career that requires planning, discipline, allocation of resources, and the conviction to finish.

Stan took on the challenge of learning the art of constructive language at the University of Massachusetts and later as a student of law at Indiana University. After his graduation from Indiana University and admission to the Indiana Bar in 1972, Mr. Levco began his legal career as Chief Deputy Prosecutor in Posey County. After serving as a Judge for four years Stan accepted a position in the Vanderburgh County Prosecutors office that he eventually rose to lead in 1991 as the elected Prosecutor. He has presided over this office for the past 20 years through five City Administrations.

Through prosperity and recession Stan Levco has been the man in charge of the full resources of the office of the Vanderburgh County Prosecutor. As Prosecutor, Mr. Levco has tried approximately 200 cases before a jury of Hoosier citizens. These trials have virtually all been felonies, including over 20 murder trials. He has also served as Special Prosecutor in Posey, Gibson, Warrick, Clark, Sullivan, Knox, Daviess, Lawrence, Pike, Vigo, and Monroe County.

Perhaps the most important qualities in a Prosecutor are the qualities of prudence and optimal allocation of the precious legal resources that are available to deploy to trials that provide the most protection possible to the citizens of Vanderburgh County. These management qualities are only learned from experience. A Prosecutor’s most important decisions are those decisions that allocate the prosecutorial resources made available to protect the public to highest extent possible.

Maturity and sound management judgments are necessary to make the decisions required to protect both the adults and the children of Vanderburgh County from violent and habitual criminals. Sometimes the most prudent decision that a prosecutor can make is to accept a plea bargain and other times it is in the public’s best interest to pursue a jury trial. It is up to the elected Prosecutor to make these decisions.

Stan is also a multitalented individual with talents that have been exposed as both a columnist for the Evansville Courier and as a professional musician.

Stan Levco is a man of maturity and experience fully willing and capable to lead the Vanderburgh County Prosecutor’s office through the legal challenges that come with an economic recession. He is an avowed protector of the people of Evansville and Vanderburgh County and is enthusiastically poised to continue his excellent record of a man of convictions both on and off of the job.

Paid for by Levco for Prosecutor Committee, Dan Tuley, Treasurer