Susan Webber Wright (b. 1948) is a United States District Court judge presently serving as the chief judge of the Eastern District of Arkansas. She received national attention when she dismissed Paula Jones's sexual harassment lawsuit against President Bill Clinton in 1998. 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ... Map of the boundaries of the United States Courts of Appeals and United States District Courts The United States district courts are the general trial courts of the United States federal court system. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Sexual harassment is harassment or unwelcome attention of a sexual nature. ... A lawsuit is a civil action brought before a court in which the party commencing the action, the plaintiff, seeks a legal remedy. ... The presidential seal was used by President Hayes in 1880 and last modified in 1959 by adding the 50th star for Hawaii. ... William Jefferson Bill Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946) was the 42nd President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...

Wright was a student of Clinton's in a class on admiralty law while at the University of Arkansas law school; she later challenged him on her grade. Admiralty law (usually referred to as simply admiralty and also referred to as maritime law or Law of the Sea) is a distinct body of law which governs maritime questions and offenses. ... This article is about the flagship campus of the University of Arkansas System, located in Fayetteville. ...

A conservative Republican, Wright worked for the reelection campaign of Republican Representative John Paul Hammerschmidt in 1974, who defeated Clinton by 6,000 votes in what was the future president's first run for political office. The Republican Party, often called the GOP (for Grand Old Party, although one early citation described it as the Gallant Old Party) [1], is one of the two major political parties in the United States. ... Seal of the House of Representatives The United States House of Representatives is, along with the United States Senate, one of the two houses of the Congress of the United States. ... John Paul Hammerschmidt (born May 4, 1922) is an American politician from the U.S. state of Arkansas. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ...

Prior to her appointment to the federal bench, Judge Wright served as a law professor at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law. William H. Bowen School of Law The William H. Bowen School of Law is part of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR) and was established in 1975. ...

Wright was appointed to the Western District of Arkansas by President George H.W. Bush on September 21, 1989, to a seat vacated by Judge Elsijane Roy. She was confirmed by the United States Senate on January 23, 1990. She was later reassigned to the Eastern District of Arkansas, and became chief judge of that court in 1998. The United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas is further subdivided into six divisions, which collectively cover 34 Arkansas counties. ... The presidential seal was used by President Hayes in 1880 and last modified in 1959 by adding the 50th star for Hawaii. ... Order: 41st President Vice President: Dan Quayle Term of office: January 20, 1989 – January 20, 1993 Preceded by: Ronald Reagan Succeeded by: Bill Clinton Date of birth: June 12, 1924 Place of birth: Milton, Massachusetts First Lady: Barbara Pierce Bush Political party: Republican George Herbert Walker Bush, KBE (born June... September 21 is the 264th day of the year (265th in leap years). ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Seal of the Senate The Senate of the United States of America is one of the two chambers of the Congress of the United States, the other being the House of Representatives. ... January 23 is the 23rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...

Wright presided over Paula Jones's sexual harassment lawsuit against President Clinton. The claims were based on activity alleged to have taken place when Clinton was Governor of Arkansas and Jones worked in his office. Wright refused to grant Clinton absolute presidential immunity against the lawsuit, but nonetheless ruled that a sitting president could not be sued and deferred his trial until after his presidential term was over. ¹ Her order was appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, which affirmed her ruling that Clinton was not entitled to absolute immunity, but reversed as to the stay she imposed on the proceedings so that Jones's lawsuit would continue without delay. ² This is a list of governors of Arkansas. ... Immunity confers a status ojavascript:insertTags(ì,,)n a person or body that makes that person or body free from otherwise legal obligations such as, for example, lijavascript:insertTags(Ú,,)ability for damages or punishment for criminal acts. ... The Supreme Court Building, Washington, D.C. The Supreme Court Building, Washington, D.C., (large image) The Supreme Court of the United States, located in Washington, D.C., is the highest court (see supreme court) in the United States; that is, it has ultimate judicial authority within the United States...

On April 1, 1998, Wright granted summary judgment to Clinton in a 39-page ruling that expressed exasperation with both Jones and her lawyers, and stated that she believed the case to be without legal merit. ³ Jones's appeal to the Eighth Circuit was dismissed when Clinton settled with her out of court. April 1 is the 91st day of the year (92nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 274 days remaining. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Summary judgment in U.S. legal practice is a judgment awarded by the court prior to trial, based upon the courts finding that: (1) there are no issues of material fact requiring a trial for their resolution, and (2) in applying the law to the undisputed facts, one party... The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit is a federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the following United States district courts: Eastern and Western Districts of Arkansas Northern and Southern Districts of Iowa District of Minnesota Eastern and Western Districts of Missouri District of Nebraska District of... In law there are two main meanings of the word settlement. ...

Wright was also involved with Kenneth Starr's investigation of the Whitewater scandal, and issued numerous rulings that were both favorable and unfavorable to Clinton. Kenneth Winston Starr (born July 21, 1946) is an American lawyer and former judge who was appointed to the Office of the Independent Counsel to investigate the death of the deputy White House counsel Vince Foster and the Whitewater land transactions by President Bill Clinton. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

On June 26, 2006 ⁴ Wright stayed the execution of an inmate Don William Davis who was convicted of capital murder for the 1992 execution style death of 62 year old Martha Jane Daniel a Rogers Arkansas resident ⁵.

Notes

Note 1: Jones v. Clinton, 869 F.Supp. 690 (E.D. Ark. 1994)

Note 2: Clinton v. Jones, 520 U.S. 681 (1997); see full text of the Court's decision Holding The Constitution does not protect the President from civil litigation involving actions committed before he entered office. ...

Note 3: Jones v. Clinton, 990 F.Supp. 657 (E.D. Ark. 1998)

Note 4: Susan Weber Wright stays execution of Terrick Terrell Nooner & Don William Davis (June 26, 2006); see full text of Court's decision

Note 5: Text account of crime (July 5, 2006); [1]

External links

• Federal Judicial Center profile of Judge Wright
• Trial Judge in Jones Case, a Republican Appointee, Has Long Known Clinton, by Susan Schmidt. Washington Post, May 29, 1997.
• Washington Post profile of Wright