Milan Smith | |
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Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit | |
Assumed office May 18, 2006 | |
Appointed by | George W. Bush |
Preceded by | A. Wallace Tashima |
Personal details | |
Born | Pendleton,Oregon,U.S. | May 19,1942
Relations | Gordon H. Smith (brother) |
Education | Brigham Young University (BA) University of Chicago (JD) |
Milan Dale Smith,Jr. (born May 19,1942) is an American attorney and jurist serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. [1] Smith's brother,Gordon H. Smith,was a Republican U.S. Senator from 1997 to 2009. Milan Smith is neither a Republican nor a Democrat,and he considers himself to be a political independent. [2]
Smith was born in Pendleton,Oregon. He is the son of Milan D. Smith,Sr.,who served as chief of staff of the Department of Agriculture under Secretary Ezra Taft Benson. Smith received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brigham Young University in 1966. Smith attended the University of Chicago Law School on a full-tuition scholarship,graduating in 1969 with a Juris Doctor.
After law school,Smith became an associate attorney at the Los Angeles firm of O'Melveny &Myers. In 1972,Smith left O'Melveny to co-found his own law firm,Smith &Hilbig,which eventually became Smith,Crane,Robinson &Parker. He was a President-General Counsel of the Los Angeles State Building Authority from 1983 to 2006. Smith was a Vice Chairman of the California Fair Employment and Housing Commission from 1987 to 1991.
Smith was nominated by President George W. Bush on February 14,2006,to fill a seat vacated by Judge A. Wallace Tashima. [3] The Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary of the American Bar Association rated him "well qualified," the highest possible rating. [4] He was confirmed just over three months later by the United States Senate on May 16,2006,by a 93–0 vote. [5] He was the fifth judge appointed to the Ninth Circuit by Bush,and the first since Carlos Bea was confirmed in 2003. He received his commission on May 18,2006. [6] In 2022,Smith told the Deseret News that he has no plans to retire and wishes to "die with my boots on." [7]
Smith has been one of the Ninth Circuit's most prolific writers. According to one periodical,he authored the most majority opinions of any judge on the Ninth Circuit in the three-year period ending on May 10,2013. [8]
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