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Patrick Errol Higginbotham (born 1938 in McCalla, Alabama) is a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. In 2005, he moved his chambers from Dallas, Texas to Austin, Texas. ==Background== Higginbotham attended the University of Alabama on a tennis scholarship. He received a B.A. degree in 1960 and an LL.B. degree in 1961. He served in the United States Air Force JAG Corps and practiced law in Dallas before being appointed to the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas by President Gerald Ford in 1975. When appointed, he was the youngest sitting federal judge. In 1982, President Ronald Reagan appointed him to the Fifth Circuit. In 1986, when the nomination of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court of the United States was flailing, Higginbotham was widely considered the leading replacement candidate. After Senators Lloyd Bentsen and Dennis DeConcini came out in support of his nomination, the Reagan administration, unwilling to allow the senators to both prevent the appointment of Bork and dictate the next nominee, declined to nominate Higginbotham.〔Newsweek, Vol. 116, p. 61 (1990).〕〔Jan Crawford Greenburg, Supreme Conflict: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Control of the United States Supreme Court, p. 62 (2007).〕 The nomination eventually went to Justice Anthony Kennedy. For many years, Higginbotham was a faculty member at the Federal Judicial Center and, as an appointee of Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, the chairman of the Advisory Committee on Civil Rules. He served as president of the American Inns of Court Foundation, and in 1996 the Dallas chapter of that organization renamed itself after him. He has been a leading proponent and former chairman of The Center for American and International Law, a Dallas-based organization which aims to train foreign and domestic lawyers and police officers, a Fellow of the American Bar Association, chairman of its Appellate Judges Conference, member of the Board of Editors of the ''ABA Journal'', and advisor to the National Center for State Courts on its study of habeas corpus. He is also a lifetime member of the American Law Institute and a member of the Board of Overseers, Institute of Civil Justice, RAND Corporation. Higginbotham has published a number of articles in law reviews and newspapers.〔See, e.g., ''Two Judges' Persepctives on Trial by Jury'', 12 Tex. Wesleyan L. Rev. 1201 (2006); ''So Why Do We Call Them Trial Courts?'', 55 S.M.U. L. Rev. 1405 (2002); Foreword, 54 S.M.U. L. Rev. 1679 (2001); ''Thoughts About Professor Resnick's Paper'', 148 U. Pa. L. Rev. 2197 (2000); ''A Note About a Colleague'', 76 Tex. L. Rev. 905 (1998); ''The Continuing Dialogue of Federalism'', 45 U. Kan. L. Rev. 985 (1997); ''Irving L. Goldberg Memorial'', 73 Tex. L. Rev. 975 (1995); ''Notes on'' Teague, 66 S. Cal. L. Rev. 2433 (1993); ''Juries and the Death Penalty'', 41 Case W. L. Rev. 1047 (1991); ''Reflections on Reform of Sec. 2254'', 18 Hofstra L. Rev. 1005 (1990); ''Text and Precedent in Constitutional Adjudication'', 73 Cornell L. Rev. 411 (1988).〕 He is also a frequent speaker on various legal topics, particularly the death penalty and the decline of jury trials, having lectured at places including the Universities of Alabama, Chicago, St. Mary's, Texas, Texas Tech, Columbia, Duke, and Penn, as well as Case Western, Northwestern, Utah, Loyola, Hofstra, the National Science Foundation, The American College of Trial Lawyers and the National Institute of Trial Advocacy. Many of Higginbotham's clerks later clerked on the Supreme Court. His former clerks include Princeton University president Christopher L. Eisgruber, Iowa Supreme Court Justice Edward Mansfield (judge), University of Pennsylvania Law School professor Stephanos Bibas, Harvard Law School professor James Greiner, University of Michigan Law School professor Kyle D. Logue, New York University School of Law professor Roderick Hills, Jr., University of Texas School of Law professor Henry Hu, George Washington University Law School professor Michael B. Abramowicz, University of Illinois College of Law professor Jay P. Kesan, George Mason University School of Law professor Nelson Lund, and Adam K. Mortara of Bartlit, Beck, Herman, Palenchar & Scott LLP, William H.J.Hubbard of the University of Chicago Law School, Cheryl M. Joseph, Williams & Connolly, Robert Little, Gibson Dunn, Renato Mariotti, Assistant United States Attorney, Northern District of Illinois, and Elizabeth M. Tulis, Assistant United States Attorney, Southern District of New York. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Patrick Higginbotham」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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