Raner Collins

Raner Collins


Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona
Incumbent
Assumed office September 3, 2013
Preceded by	Roslyn O. Silver
Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona
Incumbent
Assumed office August 3, 1998
Appointed by	Bill Clinton
Preceded by	William Docker Browning
Personal details
Born	Raner Christercunean Collins 1952 (age 63–64) Malvern, Arkansas, U.S.
Alma mater	Arkansas Polytechnic College (Now Arkansas Tech University) University of Arizona College of Law (Now James E. Rogers College of Law)

Raner Christercunean Collins (born 1952) is the Chief United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona.

Born in Malvern, Arkansas, Collins received a B.A. from Arkansas Polytechnic College in 1973 and a J.D. from the University of Arizona College of Law in 1975. He was a law clerk in the Pima County, Arizona Attorney's Office from 1975 to 1976, and then a trial attorney for that office until 1981. He was a city magistrate for the City of Tucson Court from 1981 to 1983, thereafter returning to Pima County Attorney's Office as a county attorney until 1985. He was a superior court judge pro tempore of the Pima County Superior Court from 1985 to 1988, and a superior court judge there from 1988 to 1998.

On May 11, 1998, Collins was nominated by President Bill Clinton to a seat on the United States District Court for the District of Arizona vacated by William D. Browning. Collins was confirmed by the United States Senate on July 31, 1998, and received his commission on August 3, 1998. He became Chief Judge on September 3, 2013, succeeding previous Chief Judge Roslyn O. Silver who took senior status.

On January 11, 2011, following the death of Chief Judge John Roll in the 2011 Tucson shooting, Collins ordered that the judges of the District of Arizona, all of whom knew Roll well, could not preside over the prosecution of the alleged murderer.

Sources

Raner Collins at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center.

Legal offices
Preceded by Roslyn O. Silver	Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona 2013–present	Incumbent
		Incumbent
Preceded by William Docker Browning	Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona 1998–present

Current active district judges of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

Alaska	Burgess Gleason 1 seat vacant

Arizona	Collins Bolton Jorgenson Campbell Wake Snow Zipps Logan Tuchi Humetewa Márquez Rayes Soto

C. California	King Real Wilson Snyder Carter Phillips Anderson Walter Klausner Otero Selna Carney Fischer Guilford Gutierrez Wright Wu Gee Staton Kronstadt Fitzgerald Bernal Olguin O'Connell Birotte 2 seats vacant

E. California	England O'Neill Mendez Mueller Nunley Drozd

N. California	Hamilton Alsup White Seeborg Koh Davila Chen Rogers Tigar Orrick Donato Freeman Chhabria Gilliam

S. California	Moskowitz Huff Burns Sabraw Hayes Houston Benitez Sammartino Anello Battaglia Bencivengo Curiel Bashant

Hawaii	Seabright Kobayashi Watson 1 seat vacant

Idaho	Winmill 1 seat vacant

Montana	Christensen Morris Watters

Nevada	Navarro Mahan Du Gordon Dorsey Boulware 1 seat vacant

Oregon	Mosman Aiken Brown Hernandez Simon McShane

E. Washington	Rice Peterson Bastian Mendoza, Jr.

W. Washington	Martinez Leighton Robart Jones Settle 2 seats vacant

Guam	Tydingco-Gatewood

N. Mariana Islands	Manglona

Chief Judges of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona

James Augustine Walsh Walter Early Craig Charles Andrew Muecke Richard Bilby William Docker Browning Robert C. Broomfield Stephen M. McNamee John Roll Roslyn O. Silver Raner Collins

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