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Walter Rice

Nonpartisan

United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Tenure

2004 - Present

Years in position

21

Prior offices:

United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Years in office: 1980 - 2004

Education

Bachelor's

Northwestern University, 1958

Law

Columbia Law School, 1962

Graduate

Columbia University, 1962

Personal

Birthplace

Pittsburgh, PA

Contact

Official website

Walter Herbert Rice is afederal judge onsenior status with theUnited States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. He joined the court in 1980 after being nominated by PresidentJimmy Carter.^[1]

Early life and education

A native ofPittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Rice graduated from Northwestern University with his bachelor's degree in 1958. Rice earned both hisJ.D. from the Columbia University School of Law and his M.B.A. from Columbia University's Graduate School of Business Administration in 1962. Rice also has two honorary degrees: a doctor of laws from the University of Dayton and a doctor of humane letters from Wright State University.^[1][2]

Professional career

• 1980-Present:United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

• 2004-Present: Senior judge

• 1996-2003: Chief judge

• 1980-2004: Judge

• 1976-Present: Adjunct professor, University of Dayton Law School
• 1971-1980: Judge,Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas
• 1970-1971: Judge,Dayton municipal court
• 1966-1969: Private practice,Dayton, Ohio
• 1964-1966, 1969: Assistant county prosecutor,Montgomery County, Ohio
• 1963: Private practice, Dayton, Ohio^[2]

Judicial career

Southern District of Ohio

Rice was nominated by PresidentJimmy Carter on April 14, 1980, to a seat on theUnited States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio vacated byTimothy Hogan. He was confirmed by theUnited States Senate on May 21, 1980, and he received his commission onMay 23, 1980. He served aschief judge of the court from 1996 to 2003. Rice elected to takesenior status beginning onNovember 30, 2004. He was succeeded in this position by JudgeMichael Barrett.^[2]

See also

• United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio
• United States Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit

External links

Suggest a link

• Judge Rice's biography from theFederal Judicial Center

Footnotes

v • e Federal judges who have served theUnited States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio
Active judges	Chief Judge: Algenon Marbley  •  Edmund Sargus  •  Matthew McFarland  •  Jeffery P. Hopkins  •  Michael Newman (Ohio)  •  Sarah Daggett Morrison  •  Douglas Cole
Senior judges	Sandra Beckwith  •  Herman Weber  •  James Graham (Ohio federal judge)  •  Walter Rice  •  Susan Dlott  •  Thomas Rose  •  Michael Watson (Ohio)  •  Michael Barrett (Ohio)  •  Timothy S. Black  •
Magistrate judges	Karen L. Litkovitz  •  Caroline Helen Gentry  •  Elizabeth Preston Deavers  •  Stephanie Bowman (Ohio)  •  Kimberly Jolson  •  Chelsey Vascura  •  Peter Silvain  •
Former Article III judges	S. Arthur Spiegel  •  John Holschuh  •  George Smith (Ohio)  •  Humphrey Howe Leavitt  •  Philip Bergen Swing  •  George Read Sage  •  Albert Clifton Thompson  •  John Elbert Sater  •  Howard Clark Hollister  •  John Weld Peck  •  Smith Hickenlooper  •  Benson Hough  •  Robert Reasoner Nevin  •  Mell Underwood  •  John Druffel  •  Lester Cecil  •  Robert Duncan (Ohio)  •  Timothy Hogan (United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio)  •  Joseph Kinneary  •  John Peck II  •  David S. Porter  •  Carl Rubin  •  Carl Weinman  •
Former Chief judges	Sandra Beckwith  •  John Holschuh  •  James Graham (Ohio federal judge)  •  Walter Rice  •  Robert Reasoner Nevin  •  Mell Underwood  •  Timothy Hogan (United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio)  •  Joseph Kinneary  •  David S. Porter  •  Carl Rubin  •  Carl Weinman  •

v • e Federal judges nominated byJimmy Carter
1977	Ballantine •Bownes •Boyle •Bua •Carr •Clark •Cowan •Daly •Filippine •Higginbotham •Hoeveler •Hug •Johnstone •Kane •Keith •Leval •Logan •MacLaughlin •McKay •Melton •Merritt •Murphy •Nickerson •Oberdorfer •Roszkowski •Roy •Rubin •Sifton •Tang •Vance •Veron
1978	Arnold •Baker •Boyle •Burns •Campos •Claiborne •Collins •Cook •Devine •Diamond •Duplantier •Edenfield •Friedman •Gonzalez •Greene •Jenkins •Lowe •Mazzone •McMillian •O'Brien •Pfaelzer •Phillips •Pollak •Sand •Shapiro •Simmons •Smith •Sweet •Tanner •Wiseman •Ziegler
1979	Ackerman •Alarcon •Anderson •Arceneaux •Arnold •Aspen •Beatty •Beer •Belew •Bertelsman •Bilby •N. Black •S. Black •Bloch •Bowen •Brett •Brooks •Brown •Buchmeyer •Bunton •Burciaga •Cabranes •Carr •Carrigan •Castagna •Cire •Clark •Cohn •Conaboy •Cordova •Crabb •Cudahy •Davis •DeAnda •Debevoise •Edwards •Eginton •Ellison •Enslen •O. Evans •T. Evans •Farris •Ferguson •Fletcher •Frye •Garcia •Garza •B. Gibson •H. Gibson •Gierbolini-Ortiz •Giles •Gilliam •Green •Hall •Hastings •Hatchett •Hatfield •Hatter •Hawkins •Henderson •Higby •Hillman •Houck •Howard •Hudspeth •Hungate •F. Johnson •S. Johnson •N. Jones •S. Jones •Karlton •Kazen •Kearse •Keeton •Kehoe •Kennedy •Kidd •King •Kravitch •Loughlin •Martin •McCurn •McDonald •McNaught •McNichols •Mikva •Mitchell •Moran •Murnaghan •Murphy •D. Nelson •D.W. Nelson •Newblatt •Newman •Overton •Paine •Panner •J. Parker •R. Parker •Penn •Perez-Gimenez •Perry •Politz •Poole •Porter •Pregerson •Price •Rambo •Ramirez •Reavley •Redden •E. Reed •S. Reed •Reinhardt •Renner •Robinson •Rothstein •Sachs •Saffels •Sanders •Sarokin •Schroeder •Schwartz •Seay •Senter •Seymour •Shannon •Shaw •Shoob •Skopil •Sloviter •Sofaer •Spellman •Sprouse •Staker •Tate •Taylor •Thompson •Tidwell •Unthank •Vietor •Vining •Wald •Ward •Weinshienk •West •Wicker •Williams •Winder •Woods •Wright • Zobel
1980	Aguilar •Aldrich •Anderson •Boochever •Breyer •Britt •Cahill •Canby •Carroll •Cerezo •Clemon •S. Ervin •R. Erwin •Getzendanner •Gilmore •Ginsburg •Haltom •Hardy •Henderson •Hobbs •Holschuh •Horton •Howard •Johnson •Keep •Kelly •Kenyon •Kocoras •Marquez •Marshall •Michael •Nixon •Norris •Patel •Polozola •Propst •Quackenbush •Ramsey •Rice •Shadur •Spiegel •Tashima •Thompson •Vela •White •Williams
1981	Heen