Paul Bender

Paul Bender
Chief Justice, Supreme Court of the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation
Incumbent
Assumed office 1998
Principal Deputy Solicitor General of the United States
In office 1993–1996
Appointed by	Drew S. Days, III
Preceded by	John G. Roberts
Succeeded by	Seth Waxman
Personal details
Born	1933 Brooklyn, New York.
Alma mater	Harvard University (A.B., J.D.)

Paul Bender, is an American attorney, author, judge and former dean of the Arizona State University college of law. Over his career Bender has argued more than twenty cases before the United States Supreme Court. He is often cited as an expert in constitutional law.

Bender received both his bachelors and law degree from Harvard University. After law school Bender clerked for Judge Learned Hand of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Justice Felix Frankfurter during the 1959 Term.

After his clerkships Bender was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School before becoming dean of the Arizona State University college of law in 1984. In 1965 Bender served as Assistant to U.S. Solicitors General Archibald Cox where he defended the United States in Brenner v. Manson. He later worked as General Counsel to the Federal Commission on Obscenity and Pornography from 1968 until 1970. Bender served as dean of the ASU law school until 1989. During the Bill Clinton administration, Bender was appointed Deputy Solicitor General by Drew Days. Bender continues to teach course on constitutional law at ASU.

Bender has been the chief Judge of the court of appeals of the San Carlos Apache Tribe since 2005, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation since 1998.

While Deputy Solicitor General, notable cases Bender argued include:

Other notable case Bender has argued before the court include:

Bender was a vocal opponent of Miguel Estrada, who worked under Bender at the Solicitor General's office, when he was nomination to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals

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