Bill Pryor
| William Holcombe Pryor Jr. | |
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| Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit | |
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Assumed office February 20, 2004 |
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| Appointed by | George W. Bush |
| Preceded by | Emmett Ripley Cox |
| 45th Attorney General of Alabama | |
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In office January 3, 1997 – February 20, 2004 |
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| Governor |
Fob James Don Siegelman Bob Riley |
| Preceded by | Jeff Sessions |
| Succeeded by | Troy King |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
William Holcombe Pryor Jr. April 26, 1962 Mobile, Alabama |
| Political party | Republican |
| Education |
Northeast Louisiana University B.A. Tulane University Law School J.D. |
William Holcombe "Bill" Pryor Jr. (born April 26, 1962) is a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and a Commissioner on the United States Sentencing Commission. Previously, he was the Attorney General of the State of Alabama from 1997 to 2004.
Born in Mobile, Alabama, the son of William Holcombe Pryor Sr., and his wife, Laura Louise (née Bowles), Pryor was raised in a devoutly Roman Catholic family. He and his siblings attended McGill–Toolen Catholic High School in Mobile. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Northeast Louisiana University in 1984 (now University of Louisiana, Monroe) and his Juris Doctor from Tulane University Law School in 1987, where he served as editor-in-chief of the Tulane Law Review.
Pryor served as a law clerk to Judge John Minor Wisdom of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit from 1987 to 1988. Pryor worked as a private attorney from 1988 to 1995, serving as adjunct professor of maritime law at the Cumberland School of Law at Samford University from 1989–1995. Pryor is currently a visiting professor at the University of Alabama School of Law and an adjunct professor at the Cumberland School of Law at Samford University.
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