[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 15]
[Senate]
[Pages 20733-20734]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




               IN MEMORY OF JUDGE RICHARD SHEPPARD ARNOLD

 Mrs. CLINTON. Mr. President, on September 23, our country lost 
one of its greatest jurists, and Arkansas lost

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one of its greatest native sons, Richard Sheppard Arnold.
  Judge Arnold was born into a legal family in 1936 in Texarkana, TX. 
His maternal grandfather, Morris Sheppard, served in this body from 
Texas from 1913 until 1941, and his paternal grandfather, William H. 
Arnold, was a circuit judge. His father, Richard Lewis Arnold, was a 
leading expert in public unitlies law. Judge Arnold graduated first in 
his class from Yale University and Harvard Law School, and in 1960 and 
1961, he served as law clerk to one of our Nation's greatest Supreme 
Court Justices, the late William J. Brennan. Judge Arnold served in 
private practice, ran for Congress, served as legislative advisor to 
both Governor and Senator Dale Bumpers, and spent more than 25 years on 
the Federal district and appellate benches. Since 1980, Judge Arnold 
served on the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
  Richard Arnold was one of our great legal writers with more than 700 
opinions over the course of his legal career. Just this year, the 
American Society of Writers on Legal Subjects awarded him its lifetime 
achievement award, only the second in its 50-year history. His more 
prominent opinions advanced civil rights and voting rights, and in 
March of this year, as part of a three-judge panel, his 22-page opinion 
upheld a lower court ruling releasing the Little Rock School District 
from more than 40 years of Federal court supervision of its 
desegregation efforts.
  Judge Richard Arnold was a friend to President Clinton and me and we 
join his wife, Kay, and his two daughters, Janet and Lydia, along with 
his brother, Judge Morris ``Buzz'' Arnold, in mourning his passing. He 
will be remembered for his remarkable life, his unequalled brilliance, 
character, common sense, deep religious faith, and devotion to the law. 
We have lost a cherished friend, and our Nation has lost a champion of 
justice.

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