Richard Clifton

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Richard Clifton

Judge of the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Incumbent
Assumed office July 30, 2002
Appointed by	George W. Bush
Preceded by	Cynthia Hall
Personal details
Born	November 13, 1950 (1950-11-13) (age 61) Framingham, Massachusetts, United States
Alma mater	Princeton University Yale University

Richard Randall 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]

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 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.

References

^ Josh Wolf v. United States Ninth Circuit

External links

Richard Clifton at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
U.S. Department of Justice Profile

Legal offices
Preceded by Cynthia Hall	Judge of the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit 2002–present	Incumbent

Current active judges of the United States courts of appeals

1st Circuit	Lynch, Torruella, Boudin, Lipez, Howard, Thompson

2nd Circuit	Jacobs, Cabranes, Pooler, Katzmann, Raggi, Wesley, Hall, Livingston, Lynch, Chin, Lohier, Carney, Droney

3rd Circuit	McKee, Sloviter, Scirica, Rendell, Ambro, Fuentes, Smith, Fisher, Chagares, Jordan, Hardiman, Greenaway, Vanaskie, 1 seat vacant

4th Circuit	Traxler, Wilkinson, Niemeyer, Motz, King, Gregory, Shedd, Duncan, Agee, Davis, Keenan, Wynn, Diaz, Floyd, 1 seat vacant

5th Circuit	Jones, King, Jolly, Davis, Smith, Garza, Benavides, Stewart, Dennis, Clement, Prado, Owen, Elrod, Southwick, Haynes, Graves, Higginson

6th Circuit	Batchelder, Martin, Boggs, Moore, Cole, Clay, Gibbons, Rogers, Sutton, Cook, McKeague, Griffin, Kethledge, White, Stranch, Donald

7th Circuit	Easterbrook, Posner, Flaum, Kanne, Rovner, Wood, Williams, Sykes, Tinder, Hamilton, 1 seat vacant

8th Circuit	Riley, Wollman, Loken, Murphy, Bye, Melloy, Smith, Colloton, Gruender, Benton, Shepherd

9th Circuit	Kozinski, Pregerson, Reinhardt, O'Scannlain, Thomas, Silverman, Graber, McKeown, Wardlaw, Fletcher, Fisher, Gould, Paez, Berzon, Tallman, Rawlinson, Clifton, Bybee, Callahan, Bea, M Smith, Ikuta, N Smith, Murguia, Christen, 4 seats vacant

10th Circuit	Briscoe, Kelly, Lucero, Murphy, Hartz, O'Brien, Tymkovich, Gorsuch, Holmes, Matheson, 2 seats vacant

11th Circuit	Dubina, Tjoflat, Edmondson, Carnes, Barkett, Hull, Marcus, Wilson, Pryor, Martin, 2 seats vacant

DC Circuit	Sentelle, Henderson, Rogers, Tatel, Garland, Brown, Griffith, Kavanaugh, 3 seats vacant

Federal Circuit	Rader, Newman, Lourie, Bryson, Linn, Dyk, Prost, Moore, O'Malley, Reyna, Wallach, 1 seat vacant

Persondata
Name	Clifton, Richard
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Date of birth	November 13, 1950
Place of birth	Framingham, Massachusetts, United States
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