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Jeffrey Lane Fortenberry is a former United States congressman. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 2005 to 2022, representing Nebraska's 1st congressional district as a member of the Republican Party.
Roman Lee Hruska was an American attorney and politician who served as a Republican U.S. senator from the state of Nebraska. Hruska was known as one of the most vocal conservatives in the Senate during the 1960s and 1970s.
David Rice and Edward Poindexter were charged and convicted of the murder of Omaha Police Officer Larry Minard. Minard died when a suitcase bomb containing dynamite exploded in a North Omaha home on August 17, 1970. Officer John Tess was also injured in the explosion. Rice died on March 11, 2016. He was 68 years old and had been in poor health.
The Nebraska Supreme Court is the highest court in the U.S. state of Nebraska. The court consists of a chief justice and six associate justices. Each justice is initially appointed by the governor of Nebraska; using the Missouri Plan, each justice is then subject to a retention vote for additional six-year terms. The six justices each represent a Supreme Court district; the chief justice is appointed at-large.
Michael McCormack is a retired justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court, appointed by Governor Ben Nelson in 1997. He graduated from Creighton University School of Law in 1963 as well as graduating from Creighton Preparatory School in 1957 and worked as an Assistant Public Defender in Douglas County from 1963 to 1966. He then worked as an attorney in a private practice until being appointed to the Court.
John F. Wright was an American court justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court, appointed by Governor Ben Nelson in 1994. Wright was born in Scottsbluff, Nebraska. He received his bachelor's degree and law degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Law He served in the Nebraska National Guard from 1970 to 1976. Wright practiced law from 1970 to 1991. In 1991, Wright was appointed to the Nebraska State Court of Appeals. Wright died after a long illness on March 18. 2018.
Scott Milne Matheson Jr. is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. He has served on that court since 2010.
Walter M. Calinger is a former lawyer, former mayor of Omaha and education official.
Michael R. Murphy is a Senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
Creighton University School of Law, located in Omaha, Nebraska, United States, is a component of the Jesuit Creighton University. According to Creighton's official 2019 ABA-required disclosures, 75% of the Class of 2019 obtained full-time, long-term, JD-advantaged or JD-required employment nine months after graduation.
Joseph Francis Bataillon is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska.
Harvey M. Johnsen was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
Constantine Joseph Smyth was Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia.
William Joseph Kayatta Jr. is an American lawyer who serves as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
Patrick J. Borchers is a lawyer, university administrator and politician from the state of Nebraska in the Midwestern United States. He is a member of the faculty of the Creighton University School of Law in the city of Omaha. In 2016, he ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the Nebraska legislature. Borchers is a member of the Democratic Party.
Same-sex marriage in Nebraska has been legally recognized since June 26, 2015, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the case of Obergefell v. Hodges that the denial of marriage rights to same-sex couples violates the Fourteenth Amendment. Following the court ruling, the Attorney General, Doug Peterson, announced that the state of Nebraska would comply and recognize same-sex marriages.
James Renwick Dean was a justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court from 1909 to 1910, and again from 1917 to 1935.
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