Lincoln (Neb.) - Nov. 3, 1997 - The 1997 Cline-Williams Jurist-in-Residence lecture will examine the impeachment of a judge nearly 200 years ago and contemporary analogies Nov. 5 at the University of Nebraska Law College.
The Hon. Richard S. Arnold, chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit, will deliver the lecture, titled "The 1802 Impeachment of Judge John Pickering and Modern Analogies," beginning at 11 a.m. in the auditorium of Ross McCollum Hall on East Campus. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Pickering, judge for the District of New Hampshire, was impeached by the House of Representatives, tried by the Senate and removed from office in 1803. The charges, roughly speaking, were incompetence, drunkenness and being a Federalist.
Arnold earned his bachelor's degree at Yale University and his juris doctorate at Harvard Law School where he was case editor of the Harvard Law Review. After clerking for U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Brennan, Arnold practiced with Covington and Burling in Washington, D.C., and then with Arnold and Arnold in Texarkana, Ark. From 1975 through 1978, he was legislative assistant to U.S. Sen. Dale Bumpers (D.-Ark.). He was appointed to the U.S. District Court in Arkansas in 1978 and to the 8th Circuit in 1980. He became chief judge in 1992. Judge Arnold serves on the council of the American Law Institute and is a member of the executive committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States.
The jurist-in-residence program was established at the Law
College by the law firm of Cline, Williams, Wright, Johnson and
Oldfather. In addition to delivering a public lecture, the jurist
participates in classes and meets informally with students and
faculty.
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