Pasco Bowman II

Pasco Middleton Bowman II (born 1933) is an inactive Senior United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.

Pasco Bowman
Senior Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Incumbent
Assumed office August 1, 2003
Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In office April 17, 1998 – April 24, 1999
Preceded by	Richard S. Arnold
Succeeded by	Roger Leland Wollman
Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In office July 19, 1983 – August 1, 2003
Appointed by	Ronald Reagan
Preceded by	Jesse Smith Henley
Succeeded by	Raymond Gruender
Personal details
Born	Pasco Middleton Bowman II 1933 (age 86–87) Harrisonburg, Virginia
Education	Bridgewater College (B.A.) New York University School of Law (J.D.) London School of Economics University of Virginia School of Law (LL.M.)

Education and career

A former Fulbright scholar, Bowman was born in Harrisonburg, Virginia and grew up in New Market, Virginia and Timberville, Virginia. He graduated from New Market High School, and in 1955 received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Bridgewater College in Bridgewater, Virginia. He took his Juris Doctor from New York University School of Law in 1958, where he was a Root-Tilden scholar and served as managing editor of the law review. He then went into private practice of law. From 1958 to 1964, with time out for military service and his Fulbright year at the London School of Economics, he was associated with the New York City law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore.[1]

Bowman was a member of the faculty of University of Georgia School of Law from 1964 to 1970. He was then dean and professor at Wake Forest University School of Law from 1970 to 1978, and a visiting professor at the University of Virginia School of Law from 1978 to 1979. He was dean and professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law from July 1979 to July 1983. During this entire period he was also a United States Army Reserve Colonel in the Judge Advocate General's Corps from 1959 to 1984.[1]

Federal judicial service

On May 24, 1983, President Ronald Reagan nominated Bowman to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit to fill a seat vacated by Judge Jesse Smith Henley. The United States Senate confirmed Bowman on July 18, 1983, and he received his commission on July 19, 1983. He served as Chief Judge from 1998 to 1999. He took senior status on August 1, 2003.[1]

Bowman completed the graduate program for judges at the University of Virginia School of Law and received his Master of Laws from the University of Virginia in 1986. He was on the short list of candidates to fill the United States Supreme Court vacancy created by the retirement of Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. in 1987, a seat that ultimately went to Justice Anthony Kennedy. His service to the federal judiciary includes tours of duty on the Criminal Law Committee, the Federal-State Jurisdiction Committee, and the Board of Directors of the Federal Judicial Center. Notably, Bowman authored the Eighth Circuit's opinion in Clinton v. Jones that held the Constitution does not protect the President from federal civil litigation involving actions committed before entering office.[2] The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment 9-0.

Notable clerk

Conservative commentator Ann Coulter clerked for Bowman.[3]

References

1. "Bowman, Pasco Middleton II - Federal Judicial Center". www.fjc.gov.
2. https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=4655029432138828272&as_sdt=6&as_vis=1
3. "Ann Coulter". Retrieved 6 March 2017.

Sources

• Pasco Middleton Bowman II at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center.

Legal offices
Preceded by Jesse Smith Henley	Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit 1983–2003	Succeeded by Raymond Gruender
Preceded by Richard S. Arnold	Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit 1998–1999	Succeeded by Roger Leland Wollman