Richard Clifton
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Richard R. Clifton (born November 13, 1950 in Framingham, Massachusetts) is a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He was nominated by President George W. Bush on September 4, 2001 to fill a seat vacated by Cynthia Holcomb Hall, and confirmed by the United States Senate 98-0 on July 30, 2002. He was Bush's first appointment to the Ninth Circuit.
In 2006, he was one of the judges on the panel that upheld the imprisonment of journalist Josh Wolf.[1] In 2007, he wrote the majority opinion for a three-judge panel approving of the strip-search of a thirteen year-old girl by a school nurse looking for Ibuprofen tablets under a zero-tolerance drug policy.[2]
Clifton received an A.B. at Princeton University and a J.D. from Yale Law School. After law school, he clerked for Ninth Circuit Judge Herbert Y.C. Choy. Following his clerkship, he was in private practice until his appointment to the federal bench. He also taught for several years at the Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawaii as an adjunct professor.
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| Preceded by Cynthia Holcomb Hall |
Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit 2002-present |
Succeeded by incumbent |
