Complex sentence: He became a judge when he succeeded Willis Knowles, who was a murder victim, as judge of the Rhode Island Eighth District Court in 1916 and served in that post for a year before resigning.
Split into simpler sentences: He became a judge when he succeeded Willis Knowles, who was a murder victim, as judge of the Rhode Island Eighth District Court in 1916. He served in that post for a year before resigning.