Clarence Addison "Bud" Brimmer, Jr. | |
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Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Wyoming | |
In office September 27, 2006 – October 23, 2014 |
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Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Wyoming | |
In office September 16, 1975 – September 27, 2006 |
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Appointed by | Gerald Ford |
Preceded by | Ewing Thomas Kerr |
Succeeded by | Nancy D. Freudenthal |
23rd Attorney General of Wyoming | |
In office 1971–1974 |
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Governor | Stanley K. Hathaway |
Preceded by | James Emmett Barrett |
Succeeded by | David B. Kennedy |
Chairman of the Wyoming Republican Party | |
In office 1967–1971 |
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Personal details | |
Born |
Rawlins, Carbon County Wyoming, U.S. |
July 11, 1922
Died | October 23, 2014 Boulder, Colorado, U.S. |
(aged 92)
Spouse(s) | Emily Olene Docken Brimmer |
Children |
Philip A. Brimmer |
Parents |
Clarence Brimmer, Sr. |
Residence | Cheyenne, Wyoming |
Alma mater |
Rawlins High School |
Occupation | Attorney |
Military service | |
Service/branch | United States Army Air Forces |
Battles/wars | World War II |
Philip A. Brimmer
Geraldine Thomas
Andrew Brimmer
Clarence Brimmer, Sr.
Rawlins High School
University of Michigan
Clarence Addison Brimmer, Jr., known as Bud Brimmer (July 11, 1922 – October 23, 2014), was from 1975 until his death in 2014 a judge of the United States District Court for the District of Wyoming.
Brimmer and his two siblings were born in Rawlins in Carbon County in southern Wyoming, to the attorney Clarence A. Brimmer, Sr., and the former Geraldine Zingsheim. Brimmer received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, at which he was the editor of the university's The Michigan Daily. In 1944 Brimmer joined the United States Army Air Forces, in which he attained the rank of sergeant and served until 1946. He received a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1947 and to Rawlins to join his father's law firm, Brimmer & Brimmer, through which he gained experience as a trial attorney. He was in private practice in Rawlins from 1947 to 1971. He was the state chairman of the Wyoming Republican Party from 1967 to 1971, when he was appointed by Governor Stanley K. Hathaway as the state attorney general, a post he filled until 1974.