James B. Loken

James B. Loken (born in 1940 in Madison, Wisconsin) is a federal appeals court judge who has served on the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals since 1990.

Education and legal training

Loken earned his B.S. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1962 and his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1965. After law school, he clerked for Judge J. Edward Lumbard of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals from 1965 to 1966 and for Associate Justice Byron White of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1966 to 1967.

Professional career

Loken was in private practice in Minneapolis, Minnesota from 1967 to 1970. He was General Counsel to the President's Committee on Consumer Interests in 1970 and a staff assistant to President Richard M. Nixon from 1970 to 1972. Loken returned to private practice in Minneapolis from 1973 to 1990.

Federal judicial service

Loken was nominated to the Eighth Circuit by President George H. W. Bush on September 10, 1990, to a seat vacated by Gerald William Heaney. He was confirmed by the Senate on October 12, and received his commission on October 17. He has served as the chief judge of that court since 2003.

ee also

*List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States