Robert C. Broomfield: Difference between revisions

{{Infobox Officeholder

|name = Robert Broomfield

|image =Broomfield.jpg

|office = [[Senior Status|Senior Judge]] of the [[United States District Court for the District of Arizona]]

|term_start = August 12, 1999

|term_end = July 10, 2014

|office1 = Chief Judge of the [[United States District Court for the District of Arizona]]

|term_start1 = 1994

|term_end1 = August 12, 1999

|predecessor1 = [[William Docker Browning]]

|successor1 = [[Stephen M. McNamee]]

|office2 = Judge of the [[United States District Court for the District of Arizona]]

|appointer2 = [[Ronald Reagan]]

|term_start2 = July 11, 1985

|term_end2 = August 12, 1999

|predecessor2 = ''Seat established in 1984 pursuant to 71 Stat. 586 ''

|successor2 = [[Susan Ritchie Bolton]]

|birth_date = 1933

|birth_place = {{nowrap|[[Detroit, Michigan]], [[Michigan]], [[United States|U.S.]]}}

|death_date = July 10, 2014 (age 81)

|death_place = [[Phoenix, Arizona|Phoenix]], [[Arizona]], [[United States|U.S.]]

|spouse = Cuma<ref name=NinthCircDeathNotice />

|children = Robert, Jr., and Scott, and daughter, Alyson<ref name=NinthCircDeathNotice />

|alma_mater = [[Pennsylvania State University]]<br>[[University of Arizona College of Law]]

}}

Judge '''Robert C. Broomfield''' (born 1933-2014) was a [[judge]] for the [[United States District Court]] for the [[United States District Court for the District of Arizona|District of Arizona]]. [[President of the United States|President]] [[Ronald Reagan]] nominated Judge Broomfield on May 15, 1985 and he was confirmed by the [[United States Senate]] on July 10, 1985. Judge Broomfield served as chief judge from 1994 to 1999. [[Chief Justice of the United States|Chief Justice]] [[William Rehnquist]] appointed Judge Broomfield to the [[Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court]] in May 2002, a position in which he served until 2009.<ref name=NinthCircDeathNotice /> [[Chief Justice of the United States|Chief Justice]] [[William Rehnquist]] appointed Judge Broomfield to the Budget Committee in 1997 and he served as a member until 2013.<ref name=NinthCircDeathNotice />

He assumed [[senior status]] on August 12, 1999<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.fjc.gov/servlet/nGetInfo?jid=277 | title=Biographical Directory of Federal Judges | publisher=Federal Judicial Center | accessdate=13 July 2014}}</ref> and served in that capacity until his death. Judge Broomfield died of cancer in a [[Phoenix, Arizona|Phoenix]] hospice on July 10, 2014<ref name="NinthCircDeathNotice">{{cite web | url=http://www.ce9.uscourts.gov/absolutenm/articlefiles/726-Passing_of_Judge_Broomfield.pdf | title=Federal Court in Arizona Mourns Passing of District Judge Robert C. Broomfield | publisher=Public Information Office | work=[[United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit]] | date=12 July 2014 | accessdate=13 July 2014}}</ref>, exactly 29 years from the date he was commissioned as a federal judge.

He was influential in obtaining approval for and funding of the [[Sandra Day O'Connor United States Courthouse]] in Phoenix.<ref name=NinthCircDeathNotice />

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{{s-bef|before=Seat established in 1984 pursuant to 71 Stat. 586}}

{{s-ttl|title=Judge of the [[United States District Court for the District of Arizona]]|years=1985–1999}}

{{s-aft|after=[[Susan Ritchie Bolton]]}}

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| PLACE OF BIRTH = Detroit, Michigan

| DATE OF DEATH = July 10, 2014

| PLACE OF DEATH = Phoenix, Arizona

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