Richard Bevan Austin

Richard Bevan Austin
Richard Bevan Austin
Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
	In office; October 10, 1975 – February 7, 1977
Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
	In office; August 15, 1961 – October 10, 1975
Appointed by	John F. Kennedy
Preceded by	Walter J. LaBuy
Succeeded by	John Powers Crowley
Personal details
Born	Richard Bevan Austin; January 23, 1901; Chicago, Illinois
Died	February 7, 1977 (aged 76); Chicago, Illinois
Education	Denison University (Ph.B.); University of Chicago Law School (J.D.)

Richard Bevan Austin (January 23, 1901 – February 7, 1977) was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

Education and career

Born in Chicago, Illinois, Austin received a Bachelor of Philosophy from Denison University in 1923 and a Juris Doctor from the University of Chicago Law School in 1926. He was in private practice in Chicago from 1926 to 1933, and again from 1948 to 1952, having served as an assistant state's attorney of Cook County, Illinois from 1933 to 1947, and as a first assistant state's attorney of Cook County from 1947 to 1948 and from 1952 to 1953. He was an acting state's attorney of Cook County from 1947 to 1948, and a special prosecutor from 1951 to 1952. He was a judge of the Superior Court of Cook County from 1953 to 1960. He was chief justice of the Criminal Court of Cook County from 1954 to 1955, running unsuccessfully as the Democratic nominee for Governor of Illinois in 1956, and again served as chief justice of the court from 1960 to 1961.[1]

Federal judicial service

On August 7, 1961, Austin was nominated by President John F. Kennedy to a seat on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois vacated by Judge Walter J. LaBuy. Austin was confirmed by the United States Senate on August 15, 1961, and received his commission the same day. He assumed senior status on October 10, 1975, serving in that capacity until his death on February 7, 1977, in Chicago.[1]

gollark: Speaking specifically about the error handling, it may be "simple", but it's only "simple" in the sense of "the compiler writers do less work". It's very easy to mess it up by forgetting the useless boilerplate line somewhere, or something like that.

gollark: Speaking more generally than the type system, Go is just really... anti-abstraction... with, well, the gimped type system, lack of much metaprogramming support, and weird special cases, and poor error handling.

gollark: - They may be working on them, but they initially claimed that they weren't necessary and they don't exist now. Also, I don't trust them to not do them wrong.- Ooookay then- Well, generics, for one: they *kind of exist* in that you can have generic maps, channels, slices, and arrays, but not anything else. Also this (https://fasterthanli.me/blog/2020/i-want-off-mr-golangs-wild-ride/), which is mostly about the file handling not being good since it tries to map on concepts which don't fit. Also channels having weird special syntax. Also `for` and `range` and `new` and `make` basically just being magic stuff which do whatever the compiler writers wanted with no consistency- see above- Because there's no generic number/comparable thing type. You would need to use `interface{}` or write a new function (with identical code) for every type you wanted to compare- You can change a signature somewhere and won't be alerted, but something else will break because the interface is no longer implemented- They are byte sequences. https://blog.golang.org/strings.- It's not. You need to put `if err != nil { return err }` everywhere.

gollark: Oh, and the error handling is terrible and it's kind of the type system's fault.

gollark: If I remember right Go strings are just byte sequences with no guarantee of being valid UTF-8, but all the functions working on them just assume they are.

References

Richard Bevan Austin at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center.

Sources

Richard Bevan Austin at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center.

Party political offices
Preceded by Sherwood Dixon	Democratic nominee for Governor of Illinois 1956	Succeeded by Otto Kerner Jr.
Legal offices
Preceded by Walter J. LaBuy	Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois 1961–1975	Succeeded by John Powers Crowley

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[auto-1] Richard Bevan Austin at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center.