[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 145 (Thursday, September 27, 2007)]
[House]
[Page H11010]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




           HONORING JUDGE RICHARD SHEPPARD ARNOLD (1936-2004)

  (Mr. BOOZMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BOOZMAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to a person who 
has been described as ``perhaps the best judge never to serve on the 
Supreme Court.'' I wish today to honor and remember Judge Richard 
Arnold as we prepare to name the Federal building in Little Rock after 
one who has given so much to his country.
  A Texarkana native, Judge Arnold attended Exeter, Yale, and Harvard, 
and clerked for Justice William Brennan before returning to Arkansas to 
set up practice in Texarkana.
  President Carter named Judge Arnold, a Democrat, to the district 
court in 1978 and, in just over a year, named him to the Eighth 
Circuit. He rose to chief judge and served on the Eighth Circuit with 
his brother Morris, a Republican.
  Judge Arnold's life represents one of commitment to the rule of law 
and of service to one's country. I am proud to see the Federal building 
in Little Rock named after him, and I am proud to speak of him here in 
the well of the House.

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