William A. Fletcher

William Fletcher
Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Incumbent
Assumed office October 9, 1998
Appointed by	Bill Clinton
Preceded by	William Norris
Personal details
Born	1945 (age 66–67) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Alma mater	Harvard University Merton College, Oxford Yale University

William A. Fletcher (born 1945) is a United States federal appeals court judge who has sat on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals since 1998.

Education and legal training

Fletcher went to Roosevelt High school in Seattle, Washington, graduating in 1964. Fletcher received a B.A. from Harvard University in 1968 and another from Merton College, Oxford University in 1970 as a Rhodes Scholar. He earned his law degree from Yale Law School in 1975. He then clerked for U.S. District Court Judge Stanley A. Weigel from 1975 to 1976. Fletcher then clerked for Associate Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1976 to 1977.

Fletcher's mother, Betty Binns Fletcher, is also a judge on the Ninth Circuit, although she took senior status in 1998.

Fletcher taught Federal Courts at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Boalt Hall),.

Professional career

Fletcher was a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy from 1970 to 1972 and a Professor of Law at Boalt Hall School of Law, UC Berkeley from 1977 to 1998.

Federal judicial service

Fletcher was nominated twice by former President Bill Clinton, his Rhodes Scholar classmate at Oxford, for a seat on the Ninth Circuit vacated by William Albert Norris in April of 1995, and January of 1997. His first appointment was never voted on by the senate, but his second nomination was confirmed in a 57-41 vote on October 8, 1998 and received his commission on October 9.

See also

• List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States

References

Legal offices
Preceded by William Norris	Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit 1998–present	Incumbent