Admitted
1951, Iowa and U.S. District Court, Southern District of Iowa; 1991, U.S. Supreme Court; 1997, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit
Law School
State University of Iowa, J.D., with distinction, 1951
Law School Graduation Year
1951
College
State University of Iowa, B.A., 1949
Memberships
Pottawattamie County (President, 1979-1980), Iowa State (Member, 1975-1981, and Chairman, 1978-1980, Federal Practice Committee; Member, Legal Education and Admission to the Bar Committee, 1983-1987; Member: Probate & Trust Law Council, 1996—; Probate & Trust Law Section, 1996—); Iowa Conference of Bar Association Presidents (President, 1985-1987), Federal, American (Member, Real Estate, Probate and Trust Law Section) and Inter-American Bar Associations; American Judicature Society
Biographical
Phi Delta Phi; Delta Sigma Rho; Omicron Delta Kappa. Author: Federal Magistrates Act, Article 56 Iowa Law Review 62 October, 1970; The Court Moves West, Southside Press of the Midlands, Copyright 1988; West of the Nishnabotna, Southside Press of the Midlands, 1998. Co-Author: No One is Above the Law: the Story of Southern Iowa's Federal Court, Copyright, 1994. Member, Board of Directors Council Bluffs Community School District, 1958-1964; President, 1963. U.S. Magistrate Judge, Southern District of Iowa (part-time), 1970—. Member, 1964—, and President, 1978-1979, National Council U.S. Magistrates. Verifying Official, Prisoner Transfer Commission, Mexico City, 1977; Bolivia, 1980-1981; Peru, 1981. President, Historical Society of U.S. Courts in the Eighth Circuit, 1989—. Life Fellow, American Bar Foundation.