Richard Allen Griffin
| Richard Allen Griffin | |
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| Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit | |
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Assumed office June 10, 2005 |
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| Appointed by | George W. Bush |
| Preceded by | Damon Keith |
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Richard Allen Griffin April 15, 1952 Traverse City, Michigan |
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Western Michigan University B.A. University of Michigan Law School J.D. |
Richard Allen Griffin (born April 15, 1952) is a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Previously, he was a judge on the Michigan Court of Appeals.
Griffin, born in Traverse City, Michigan, is the son of former United States Senator Robert P. Griffin. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree magna cum laude from Western Michigan University in 1971 and a Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan Law School in 1977.
Beginning in 1989, he served as a judge on the Michigan Court of Appeals (Third District). During part of that time his father was a Justice on the Michigan Supreme Court.
On June 26, 2002, Bush nominated Griffin to a Michigan seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit vacated by Damon Keith, who had taken senior status in 1995. Previously, on November 8, 2001, President Bush had nominated Henry Saad, David W. McKeague and Susan Bieke Neilson to three other Michigan seats on the Sixth Circuit. During the Democratic-controlled 107th Congress, all four nominations were stalled in the Senate Judiciary Committee by then chairman, Senator Patrick Leahy, D-VT. In its assessment of his nomination, the Independent Judiciary project of the liberal group Alliance for Justice described Griffin as a "deeply conservative jurist".
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