Denver Law Review

Volume 66 Issue 4 Tenth Circuit Surveys Article 3

February 2021

The Judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

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Recommended Citation Denver University Law Review, The Judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, 66 Denv. U. L. Rev. xiv (1989).

This Document is brought to you for free and open access by the Denver Law Review at Digital Commons @ DU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Denver Law Review by an authorized editor of Digital Commons @ DU. For more information, please contact [email protected],[email protected]. THE JUDGES OF THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT sity of Texas Law School, Stanford CHIEF JUDGE WILLIAM J. University, and the University of Michigan. HOLLOWAY, JR. He was a commission for the U.S. District The son of a former Oklahoma gover- Court from 1964 until 1967 and was a can- nor, Judge Holloway was born in Hugo, didate for the U.S. Senate in 1968. Oklahoma, in 1923. He and his family Judge Logan is a Rhodes Scholar, a moved to Oklahoma City in 1927. He member of Phi Beta Kappa, Order of the served as a First Lieutenant in the Army Coif, Beta Gamma Sigma, Omicron Delta during World War II. He then returned to Kappa, Pi Sigma Alpha, Alpha Kappa Psi, complete his undergraduate studies at the and Phi Delta Phi. He has co-authored nu- University of Oklahoma. receiving his B.A. merous books on estate planning and ad- in 1947. He graduated from Harvard Law ministration. In 1977 he was appointed to School in 1950. the United States Court of Appeals for the In 1951 and 1952, Judge Holloway was Tenth Circuit. an attorney with the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. Afterwards, he re- JUDGE STEPHANIE K. turned to private practice in Oklahoma City where he was appointed to the United SEYMOUR States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Cir- Judge Seymour was born in Battle cuit by Lyndon B. Johnson in 1968 and be- Creek, Michigan, in 1940. She graduated came Chief Judge on September 15, 1984. from Smith College, magna cur laude, in He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Phi 1962 and earned her J.D. from Harvard Gamma Delta. Law School in 1965. She was admitted to JUDGE MONROE G. McKAY the Oklahoma bar in 1965. Judge Seymour has practiced law in Judge McKay was born in Huntsville, Boston, Massachusetts, 1965-1966; in Utah, in 1929 and lives in Provo. He grad- Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1967; and Houston, uated from Brigham Young University in Texas, 1968-1969. Most recently, she has 1957 with high honors. He received his practiced with the Tulsa firm of Doerner, J.D. from the University of Chicago and be- Stuart, Saunders, Daniel & Anderson from came the law clerk forJusticeJesse A. Udall 1971 to 1979. Judge Seymour is a member of the Arizona Supreme Court in 1960. of Phi Beta Kappa, and the American, From 1961 to 1974,Judge McKay was with Oklahoma, and Tulsa County Bar associa- the firm of Lewis and Roca in Phoenix, tak- tions. She served as a bar examiner from ing two years out to serve as Director of the 1973 through 1979. United States Peace Corps in Malawi, Af- rica. He was a law professor at Brigham Judge Seymour was appointed to the Young University from 1974 until he was United States Court of Appeals for the appointed to the United States Court of Tenth Circuit by President Carter in 1979. Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in 1977. JUDGE JOHN P. MOORE JUDGE JAMES K. LOGAN Judge Moore was born in Denver, Col- Judge Logan was born in Quenemo, orado in 1934 and still lives in Denver. He Kansas, in 1929. He received his A.B. from received' his B.A. from the University of the University of Kansas in 1952 and was Denver in 1956 and received his LL.B. graduated magna cum laude from Harvard from the University of Denver College of Law School in 1955. He went on to be U.S. Law in 1959. Following graduation he Circuit Judge Walter Huxman's law clerk in practiced as an associate at the Denver law 1956 and then practiced with the Los An- firm of Carbone & Walsmith until 1962. geles firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He From 1962 through 1975 Judge Moore became Dean of the University of Kansas worked in the Colorado Attorney General's Law School in 1961 and served in the ca- Office. He served as Assistant Attorney pacity until 1968. General from 1962 through 1967, as Dep- Since 1961 he has been a visiting pro- uty Attorney General from 1967 through fessor at Harvard Law School, The Univer- 1972, and, ultimately, as Attorney General for the State of Colorado from 1972 197 1, Judge Tacha was selected to be a through 1975. White House Fellow. During her In January of 1975, Judge Moore was fellowship, she was sent on official trips to appointed to the Bankruptcy Court of the Southeast Asia, East and Central Africa, United States District Court for the District and the European Economic Community. of Colorado. Judge Moore served as a Following her year as a White House bankruptcy judge until July of 1982 when Fellow, Judge Tacha was an associate with he was appointed to the United States Dis- the law firm of Hogan and Hartson in trict Court for the District of Colorado by Washington, D.C. In 1973, she returned to President Reagan. President Reagan ap- Kansas and was engaged in a private law pointed Judge Moore to the United States practice in Concordia, Kansas. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in In the fall of 1974, she was appointed May of 1985. to the faculty of the Law School at the University of Kansas. In 1979, she was JUDGE STEPHEN H. appointed as the Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, and in 1981 the Vice ANDERSON Chancellor for Academic Affairs. In December of 1985, President Reagan Judge Anderson was born in 1932. He appointed her to the United States Court of attended Eastern Oregon College between Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, where she 1949 and 1951, and Brigham Young Uni- now serves as a Circuit Judge. With her versity in 1955 and 1956. He received an appointment to the Court of Appeals, she LL.B. degree from the University of Utah became the seventeenth woman to be College of Law in 1960. Judge Anderson appointed to that court in its nearly 200 served in the United States Department of year history. Justice between 1960 and 1964. He was a trial attorney in the tax division of the De- JUDGE BOBBY R. BALDOCK partment ofJustice. In 1964, he became a member of the law firm of Ray, Quinney, Judge Bobby R. Baldock was born in and Webeker, P.C., in Salt Lake City, Utah. Rocky, Oklahoma, in 1936 and grew up in From November, 1985, until the present, Hagerman and Roswell, New Mexico. He Judge Anderson has served as a Circuit is a graduate of the New Mexico Military Judge on the United States Court of Ap- Institute in Roswell (1956) and received his peals for the Tenth Circuit. J.D. from the University of Arizona College Judge Anderson has appeared as lead of Law (1960). He is a member of the New counsel in 17 courts throughout the United Mexico and Arizona bars. Judge Baldock States. He has served as President and was appointed to the United States Court Commissioner of the Utah State Bar. He of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in late was a member of the Utah Judicial Counsel 1985. Since 1983, he had served as a fed- and the Utah Judicial Conduct Commis- eral district judge in Albuquerque, New sion. In addition, Judge Anderson pres- Mexico. Before that and for 23 years, he ently serves as the chairman of the Utah had been a trial lawyer in the firm of Sand- Law and Justice Center Committee and is a ers, Bruin & Baldock, P.A. Judge Baldock member of the Fellows of the American Bar resides in Roswell. Foundation. Judge Anderson has been a director of three major corporations and JUDGE WADE BRORBY has held prestigious positions with the Salt Lake Area Chamber of Commerce and the Judge Wade Brorby was born May 23, University of Utah Law School Alumni 1934. He received his B.S. in 1956, and Association. J.D. in 1958, both from the University of Wyoming. After law school, he entered the JUDGE DEANELL R. TACHA United States Air Force, Judge Advocate General Corps. In 1961 he entered the pri- Judge Deanell Reece Tacha grew up in vate practice of law in Gillette, Wyoming, Scandia, Kansas. She graduated from the where he stayed until 1988, when President University of Kansas in 1968 with a B.A. Reagan appointed him to the United States degree with honors in American Studies. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. He At K.U., she was a member of Mortar is married and has two sons. Board and Phi Beta Kappa. She attended law school at the University of Michigan, JUDGE DAVID M. EBEL Ann Arbor, Michigan, and received a J.D. degree there in 1971. In the spring of Judge Ebel was born in Wichita, Kan- sas on June 3, 1940. He grew up in To- a director of the Santa Fe Boy's Club. In peka, Kansas, received a B.A. degree in 1962 he was appointed to the United States Economics at Northwestern University in Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit by 1962 and aJ.D. degree from the University President John F. Kennedy. He became of Michigan Law School in 1965, where he Chief Judge in 1977 and held this position graduated first in his class. While at the until September 15, 1984. On December University of Michigan Law School, he was 25, 1984, Judge Seth assumed senior elected to the Order of Coif and the Barris- status. ter Society, and served as Editor-in-Chief of the Michigan Law Review, Volume 63. SENIOR JUDGE ROBERT H. Following graduation, he clerked for MCWILLIAMS Justice Byron R. White at the United States Supreme Court during the 1965-66 term. Judge McWilliams was born in Salina, Judge Ebel then joined the Denver law firm Kansas, in 1916 and moved to Denver in of Davis, Graham & Stubbs, where he prac- 1927 where he has lived ever since. He re- ticed for the next 22 years with an emphasis ceived his A.B. and LL.B. degrees from the on a litigation practice. During that time University of Denver. In 1971, he was he tried a number of securities, antitrust, awarded an Honorary Doctor of Law de- commercial contract, product liability, tort, gree from the University. and constitutional law cases and provided During World War II, Judge McWil- general corporate advice to clients. liams served in the United States Army and Judge Ebel was nominated by Presi- was with the Office of Strategic Services. dent Reagan for a seat on the United States He has served as a Deputy District Attor- Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and ney, a Colorado district court judge, and he was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on was a member of the Colorado Supreme April 19, 1988. He assumed his seat on the Court for nine years prior to his appoint- court on July 11, 1988, with chambers lo- ment to the Court of Appeals. cated in Denver, Colorado. Judge McWilliams is a member of the Judge Ebel's community and civic ac- Judicial Conference Committee on the Ad- tivities include teaching the Corporations ministration of the Criminal Law, Phi Beta course at Denver University Law School as Kappa, Omicron Delta Kappa, Phi Delta an adjunct professor of law; teaching the Phi, and Kappa Sigma. He was sworn in as confirmation class at St. James Presbyterian a Judge of the United States Court of Ap- Church; work on a number of Bar Associa- peals for the Tenth Circuit in 1970. On tion activities, including prior service as August 31, 1984, Judge McWilliams as- Vice-President of the Colorado Bar Associ- sumed senior status. ation; and various activities with regard to his local public school district. He is a fel- SENIOR JUDGE JAMES E. low of the American College of Trial Law- BARRETT yers, a senior judge of the Doyle Inns of Court, and a member of the Town & Gown The son of the late Frank A. Barrett, Society. who served as Wyoming's Congressman, Judge Ebel is married and has four Governor, and U.S. Senator, Judge Barrett children. His hobbies include fly fishing, was born in 1922 in Lusk, Wyoming. He mountain climbing, tennis, and reading. attended the University of Wyoming for two years prior to his service in the Army SENIOR JUDGE OLIVER SETH during World War 11. After the War, he at- tended Saint Catherine's College at Oxford Judge Seth was born in New Mexico in University. He received his LL.B. from the 1915 and grew up in Santa Fe. He received University of Wyoming in 1949. In 1973 his A.B. degree from Stanford University in he was given the Distinguished Alumni 1937 and his LL.B. from Yale in 1940. Award from his alma mater. During World War II he served as a Prior to his appointment, Judge Bar- Major in the U.S. Army and was decorated rett had been involved in private practice in with the Croix de Guerre. Judge Seth has Lusk and had served as County and Prose- been a director of the Santa Fe National cuting Attorney for Niobrara County; Bank, chairman of the Legal Committee of Town Attorney for the towns of Lusk and the New Mexico Oil and Gas Association, Manville; and attorney for the Niobrara and counsel for the New Mexico Cat- County Consolidated School District. In tlegrowers' Association. He has also been 1967 he was appointed by Governor Stan- a regent of the Museum of New Mexico and ley K. Hathaway to serve as Wyoming At- torney General and he remained in that Washburn College in 1929. From 1929 to position until 1971. 1943 he practiced law in Wamego, serving Judge Barrett is a member of the Judi- as an Assistant U.S. Attorney from 1934 to cial Conference Subcommittee on Federal 1936. He was general counsel for the Kan- Jurisdiction, the U.S. Foreign Intelligence sas State Tax Commission from 1937 to Surveillance Court of Review, and is a 1939 and Chairman of the State Demo- trustee of Saint Joseph's Children's Home. cratic Committee from 1946 to 1948. Dur- He was appointed to the United States ing World War II he was a Captain in the Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in U.S. Army. In 1945, he assisted in the 1971. prosecution of General Yamashita in Ma- nila. He was a U.S. District judge from SENIOR JUDGE DELMAS C. 1949 until 1961 when he was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the HILL (Retired) Tenth Circuit. Judge Hill became a Senior Judge Hill was born in Wamego, Kan- Judge on April 1, 1977. sas, in 1906. He received his LL.B. from