Richard Tallman

Judge Richard C. Tallman (born March 3, 1953) is a judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Tallman received his Bachelors degree from the University of Santa Clara and his Juris Doctor from Northwestern University School of Law, where he served as the executive director of the law review. After serving as a law clerk for Judge Morell E. Sharp of the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington, Tallman worked as a trial lawyer for the Department of Justice and as an assistant United States Attorney in Seattle, Washington. From 1983 until his appointment to the Ninth Circuit in 2000, Tallman was an attorney in private practice in Seattle, Washington, including being chairman of the white-collar criminal defense practice group at the former Bogle and Gates law firm between 1990 and 1999. Tallman was nominated by Clinton on October 20, 1999 and was confirmed by a voice vote of the U.S. Senate on May 24, 2000.