Encyclopedia > United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit is a federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the following United States district courts :
The court is based at the Thomas F. Eagleton U.S. Courthouse in Saint Louis, Missouri.
Judges
The judges on the court (as of December 3 , 2004 ) are:
Chief Judge James B. Loken, Minneapolis, Minnesota Circuit Judge Roger Leland Wollman, Sioux Falls, South Dakota Circuit Judge Morris Sheppard Arnold, Little Rock, Arkansas Circuit Judge Diana E. Murphy, Minneapolis, Minnesota Circuit Judge Kermit Edward Bye, Fargo, North Dakota Circuit Judge William J. Riley, Omaha, Nebraska Circuit Judge Michael Joseph Melloy, Cedar Rapids, Iowa Circuit Judge Lavenski R. Smith, Little Rock, Arkansas Circuit Judge Steven M. Colloton, Des Moines, Iowa Circuit Judge Raymond W. Gruender, Saint Louis, Missouri Circuit Judge William Duane Benton, Kansas City, Missouri Senior Circuit Judge Donald Pomery Lay, Saint Paul, Minnesota Senior Circuit Judge Gerald William Heaney, Duluth, Minnesota Senior Circuit Judge Myron H. Bright, Fargo, North Dakota Senior Circuit Judge Donald Roe Ross, Omaha, Nebraska Senior Circuit Judge Theodore McMillian, Saint Louis, Missouri Senior Circuit Judge John R. Gibson, Kansas City, Missouri Senior Circuit Judge George Gardner Fagg, Des Moines, Iowa Senior Circuit Judge Pasco Middleton Bowman II, Kansas City, Missouri Senior Circuit Judge Frank J. Magill, Fargo, North Dakota Senior Circuit Judge C. Arlen Beam, Lincoln, Nebraska Senior Circuit Judge David Rasmussen Hansen, Cedar Rapids, Iowa (Here circuit judges and senior circuit judges are listed in order of seniority.)
No judgeships are vacant.
External links United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (http://www.ca8.uscourts.gov ) Recent opinions from FindLaw (http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=8th&navby=year&year=recent ) Federal Judicial Center (http://www.fjc.gov/history/home.nsf/usca_08_frm?OpenFrameSet )