Robert Holmes Bell
| Robert Holmes Bell | |
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| Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan | |
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Assumed office January 31, 2017 |
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| Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan | |
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In office 2001–2008 |
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| Preceded by | Richard Alan Enslen |
| Succeeded by | Paul Lewis Maloney |
| Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan | |
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In office July 2, 1987 – January 31, 2017 |
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| Nominated by | Ronald Reagan |
| Preceded by | Wendell Alverson Miles |
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| Born |
Robert Holmes Bell 1944 (age 72–73) Lansing, Michigan |
| Education |
Wheaton College B.A. Wayne State University Law School J.D. |
Robert Holmes Bell (born 1944) is a Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan.
Born in Lansing, Michigan, Bell received a Bachelor of Arts from Wheaton College in 1966. At Wheaton, Bell lettered in track each year.
Bell received his Juris Doctor from Wayne State University Law School in 1969. He was an assistant county prosecuting attorney for Ingham County, Michigan from 1969 to 1973 and then became a judge, first on the Ingham District Court in Mason, Michigan from 1973 to 1979, and then on the Ingham County Circuit Court in Lansing, Michigan from 1979 to 1987.
On March 11, 1987, Bell was nominated by President Ronald Reagan to a seat on the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan vacated by Wendell Alverson Miles. Bell was confirmed by the United States Senate on July 1, 1987, and received his commission the following day. He served as chief judge from 2001 to 2008. He assumed senior status on January 31, 2017.
Chief Justice John Roberts appointed Bell to serve as chairman of the criminal law committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States. In that post, Bell wrote a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2013 opposing mandatory minimum sentences, saying they produce "unjust results" and waste public funds.
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