Bobby Shepherd
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Education
Shepherd received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia in 1973. He received his Juris Doctor from the University of Arkansas School of Law in Fayetteville in 1975.Template:R
Career
Shepherd was a United States magistrate judge for the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas from 1993 until he joined the Eighth Circuit. His appointment was only the second time ever a sitting magistrate judge had been elevated directly to a federal court of appeals. From 1991 to 1993, Shepherd was an Arkansas state trial judge for the 13th Judicial Circuit, in the southern end of the state. Previously, Shepherd had been in private practice as an attorney in Arkansas from 1976 to 1990.Template:R
Federal judicial service
Shepherd was nominated to the Eighth CircuitTemplate:R by President George W. Bush on May 18, 2006, to fill a seat to be vacated by Judge Morris S. Arnold. Shepherd was confirmed by the United States Senate by voice vote on July 20, 2006.[2] He received his commission on October 10, 2006.[3]
Personal life
Shepherd's son Matthew Shepherd, has served as a state representative in the Arkansas House of Representatives since 2011 and as the Speaker of the Arkansas House of Representatives since 2018.[4]
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External links
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- 1951 births
- Living people
- Judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
- People from Arkadelphia, Arkansas
- United States court of appeals judges appointed by George W. Bush
- United States magistrate judges
- University of Arkansas School of Law alumni