[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 68 (Thursday, May 17, 2001)]
[Senate]
[Page S5126]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

      By Mrs. BOXER (for herself, Mr. Reid, and Mr. Baucus):
  S. 914. A bill to designate the United States courthouse located at 
95 Seventh Street in San Francisco, California, as the ``James R. 
Browning United States Courthouse''; to the Committee on Environment 
and Public Works.
  Mrs. BOXER. Mr. President, I am introducing legislation today to name 
the courthouse at 95 Seventh Street in San Francisco, CA as the ``James 
R. Browning United States Courthouse.''
  Judge Browning was appointed to the court by President Kennedy and 
has spent 40 years as a circuit judge on the Court of Appeals for the 
Ninth Circuit. For twelve of those years, he served as Chief Judge. As 
chief judge, Judge Browning reorganized and modernized the 
administration of the Ninth Circuit. Now, he is on Senior Status.
  He is originally from Montana and graduated from Montana State 
University in 1938 and from Montana University Law School in 1941, 
achieving the highest scholastic record in his class and serving as 
editor-in-chief of the law review. Before being appointed to the Court, 
Judge Browning served in the U.S. Army and worked for Department of 
Justice and in private practice.
  I can think of no more appropriate honor for Judge Browning than to 
place his name on the courthouse building where he has worked for 40 
years.




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