Keynote Address: The Proper Judicial Role, 250 Years Later
Hon. Lawrence VanDyke, Judge, United States Court...
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Morris S. Arnold
Judge, United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit
Biography
Morris Sheppard Arnold is a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit. He joined the court in 1992 after being nominated by President George H.W. Bush. Prior to his appointment, he served on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas after a nomination by Ronald Reagan in 1985. He assumed senior status on October 9, 2006.
Morris also served as a judge on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review from 2008 to 2013. He was the presiding judge on that court from 2012 to 2013.
Judge, United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
Biography
Lawrence VanDyke serves as a circuit judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Prior to that appointment in January 2020, he served as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the United States Department of Justice. Before that, he served consecutively as the Solicitor General of two western states – Nevada and Montana. At the beginning of his legal career, he worked as an attorney in the Appellate and Constitutional Issues practice group at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, LLP.
Judge VanDyke received his law degree magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor on the Harvard Law Review. He has engineering and theology undergraduate degrees and a masters degree in engineering management. He served as a law clerk to the Honorable Janice Rogers Brown of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Judge VanDyke and his wife Cheryl live in Reno, Nevada, and they have three children.
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Lawrence VanDyke
Keynote Address: The Proper Judicial Role, 250 Years Later Hon. Lawrence VanDyke, Judge, United States Court...