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Richard Sheppard Arnold (March 26, 1936 – September 23, 2004) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas and the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas and then a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
Sep 25, 2004 · Richard S. Arnold, a federal appeals court judge who issued influential rulings involving individual rights and narrowly missed a Supreme Court nomination, died on Thursday at the Mayo Clinic...
Before Richard Arnold was born on March 26, 1936, the good fairies gathered and agreed to bestow upon him three gifts: a silver spoon for his mouth, an uncommon brilliance for his mind, and a profound sense of spirituality for his heart. Thus encumbered, Richard S. Arnold came into the world where he
Arnold was a man who was shaped and molded by his upbringing to have certain opinions, gained freedom through the knowledge he gained in education, and ultimately developed his own opinions that led to influence his decisions while serving on the federal court of appeals for the Eighth Circuit from 1980 to 2004. Comments.
He was appointed as a U.S. District Judge for the Eastern and Western Districts of Arkansas in 1978 and was elevated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in 1980. He served as Chief Judge from 1992 to 1998 and assumed senior status in 2001. He died on September 23, 2004.
In April 2009, Prometheus Books released the biography, Judge Richard S. Arnold: A Legacy of Justice on the Federal Bench, written by the Judge's former law clerk and Emory Law School Professor Polly Price.
Jun 1, 2010 · Judge Richard S. Arnold: A Legacy of Justice on the Federal Bench. By Polly J. Price. (Amsterdam: Prometheus, 2009. 466 pp. $25.98, ISBN 978-1-59102-711-9.) - 24 Hours access
