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Richard Sheppard Arnold (March 26, 1936 – September 23, 2004) was a judge of the U.S. District Court and then the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. Two presidents, Richard M. Nixon and Bill Clinton, considered naming Arnold to the United States Supreme Court. Polly Price, a former Arnold law clerk and an Emory University law professor who has written a biography of Arnold, said that the judge will be remembered like the great jurist Learned Hand: "perhaps the best judge never to serve on the Supreme Court." In May 2002, the U.S. Courthouse in Little Rock was renamed in Judge Arnold's honor. President Jimmy Carter nominated Arnold, a fellow Democrat, to the District Court of both the Eastern and Western districts of Arkansas on August 14, 1978. Barely a year later, on December 19, 1979, Carter named Arnold to a new position on the appeals court headquartered in St. Louis—a seat to which he previously had very publicly considered nominating law school professor Joan Krauskopf but eventually opted not to proceed with because of Krauskopf's "not qualified" rating from the American Bar Association.〔http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:umS520jojVYJ:www.aals.org/profdev/women/clark.pdf+%22Joan+Krauskopf%22+%22Eighth+Circuit%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=5&gl=us〕 Arnold was confirmed by the United States Senate on February 20, 1980.〔http://www.fjc.gov/servlet/tGetInfo?jid=61〕 The U.S. Senate confirmed Arnold to the Eighth Circuit on February 20, 1980. Arnold maintained his chambers in Little Rock. He served as Chief Judge of the Eighth Circuit from 1992 to 1998. He assumed senior status on April 1, 2001, which allowed him to lighten his workload and to concentrate in detail on fewer cases. During his last twelve years on the court, he served with his younger brother, Judge Morris S. "Buzz" Arnold, a Republican appointed by President George Herbert Walker Bush. ==Early years, family, education== Arnold was born in Texarkana, Arkansas, the son of Richard Lewis Arnold, a specialist in public utilities law. All the men on both sides of his family were lawyers. His grandfather, William H. Arnold, Sr., practiced law in Texarkana and was a circuit judge and an Arkansas Bar Association president. Arnold's uncle, William H. Arnold, Jr. (died 1977), was a Rhodes Scholar and the leading expert on oil and gas in Arkansas. Arnold's maternal grandfather was Democratic U.S. Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas, who served from 1913 until his death in office. Morris Sheppard was also the grandfather of former U.S. Senator Connie Mack, III, a Florida Republican banker. Arnold said that he "never really considered being anything else but a lawyer." Arnold completed the Classical Studies program at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire in 1953. He then attended Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, where he majored in Latin and Greek, was president of the Yale Debating Association, a member of the Elizabethan Club, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He graduated ''summa cum laude'' first in his class in 1957. He received his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1960, again graduating first in his class. Arnold married the former Gale Hussman of Camden in 1958, but the marriage ended in divorce in 1975. Gale's father was the Arkansas publisher and mass media mogul Walter E. Hussman, Sr., the granddaughter of another publisher, Clyde E. Palmer, and the sister of a third, Walter E. Hussman, Jr., of the ''Arkansas Democrat-Gazette''. Arnold had two daughters by Gale: Janet Sheppard Arnold Hart of San Carlos, California, and Lydia Palmer Arnold of Syracuse, New York. Both daughters went on to become lawyers. Ms. Arnold is an adjunct professor at Syracuse University College of Law. His daughters each had two children: Evan Antonio Hart and Saxon McGrath Hart, both of San Carlos, California, and Lucile Mae Turnipseed and Grace Arnold Turnipseed, both of Syracuse, New York. Arnold's daughters and grandchildren all survived him. In 1979, he married the former Kay Kelley, who also survived him. Arnold was also general counsel for his first father-in-law's Palmer Media Group, which in 1973 became WEHCO Media, Inc., the corporate owner of the ''Arkansas Democrat-Gazette''. He provided advice on libel law, contracts for new presses, and cable television franchise renewals. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Richard S. Arnold」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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