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Richard Boulware
Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nevada
Incumbent
Assumed office
June 10, 2014
Appointed byBarack Obama
Preceded byPhilip Pro
Personal details
Born1968 (age 55–56)
Rochester, Minnesota, U.S.
Alma materHarvard University
Columbia University

Richard Franklin Boulware II (born 1968) is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nevada and former assistant Federal Public Defender.

Biography

Boulware received an Artium Baccalaureus degree, cum laude, in 1993 from Harvard College and studied toward a PhD in Sociology from 1995–1998. He received a Juris Doctor in 2002 from Columbia Law School. From 2002 to 2003, he served as a law clerk to Judge Denise Cote of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. From 2003 to 2007, he was a trial attorney in the Federal Public Defender's Office in New York. He has served in the Federal Public Defender's Office in Las Vegas, Nevada since 2007, serving as the lead attorney for complex white-collar cases since 2010.[1]

Federal judicial service

On January 16, 2014, President Obama nominated Boulware to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nevada, to the seat vacated by Judge Philip Martin Pro, who took senior status on December 31, 2011.[2]

He received a hearing before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary on March 12, 2014.[3]

On April 3, 2014 his nomination was reported out of committee by a vote of 11-7.[4] On June 5, 2014 Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid filed for cloture on the nomination. On Monday, June 9, 2014 The United States Senate agreed on the motion to invoke cloture by a vote of 53-34.[5] On Tuesday, June 10, 2014 The U.S. Senate voted 58-35 in favor of final confirmation.[6] He received his judicial commission on June 10, 2014.[7] He was sworn in on June 12, 2014.[8]

Nomination to United States Sentencing Commission

On September 9, 2015 President Barack Obama nominated Boulware to a position on the United States Sentencing Commission. If confirmed he would replace former Commissioner Ketanji Brown Jackson and his term would expire October 31, 2019.[9] His nomination is now pending before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary.[10]

References

  1. ^ "President Obama Nominates Four to Serve on United States District Courts" White House, January 16, 2014
  2. ^ "Presidential Nominations Sent to the Senate" White House, January 16, 2014
  3. ^ "Nominations". United States Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Retrieved 12 March 2014.
  4. ^ "Executive Business Meeting" (PDF). United States Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Retrieved 3 April 2014.
  5. ^ "U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 113th Congress - 2nd Session". Vote Summary: Vote Number 178. United States Senate. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
  6. ^ "U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 113th Congress - 2nd Session". Vote Summary: Vote Number 181. United States Senate. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
  7. ^ "Biographical Directory of Federal Judges". Federal Judicial Center. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
  8. ^ "Judges List: Judge Richard F. Boulware". United States District Court for the District of Nevada. Retrieved 21 June 2014.
  9. ^ "President Obama Nominates Two to Serve on the United States Sentencing Commission", White House, September 9, 2015
  10. ^ "Presidential Nominations Sent to the Senate", White House, September 9, 2015
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2014–present 		Incumbent
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