Danny Julian Boggs

American judge and lawyer (born 1944)

Danny Julian Boggs (born October 23, 1944) is an American lawyer and a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit . He was appointed to the court in 1986 and served as its chief judge from September 2003 to August 2009. Boggs was on the short list of President George W. Bush 's candidates for the U.S. Supreme Court .

Early life and education

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Born in Havana , Cuba, and raised in Bowling Green, Kentucky , Boggs attended College High School in Bowling Green, where he was a member of the debate team that won the 1959 Kentucky state debate championship.

He received an Artium Baccalaureus (Bachelor of Arts) degree _cum laude _ from Harvard University in 1965 and graduated from the University of Chicago Law School in 1968 with a J.D. degree and a nomination to the Order of the Coif .

At the University of Chicago , he won the Hinton Moot Court Competition and was an editor of the _University of Chicago Law Review _.

Career

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Boggs began his career with an academic position as a Bigelow Fellow and instructor at the University of Chicago Law School from 1968 to 1969. Later, he served in a variety of roles in Kentucky state government: first as the deputy commissioner of the Kentucky Department for Economic Security at the state capitol in Frankfort, Kentucky from 1969 to 1970; then as legal counsel and administrative assistant to Governor Louie Nunn of Kentucky from 1970 to 1971; as legislative counsel and assistant to the minority leader of the Kentucky State House of Representatives in 1972; as an attorney for the Kentucky Republican Campaign in 1972; and as deputy campaign director for the Nunn for Governor Campaign in Louisville in 1979.

When not serving in the state or federal government, Boggs engaged in private practice in Frankfort, Kentucky, in Bowling Green, Kentucky, and from 1979 to 1981 in Washington, D.C.

Boggs started a career in federal government as an attorney for the United States Department of Commerce in 1973. From 1973 to 1975, he served as assistant to United States Solicitor General Robert Bork , alongside future Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Frank Easterbrook and future secretary of labor in the Clinton administration Robert Reich .

Under Ronald Reagan , Boggs served as special assistant to the President in the Executive Office of the President from 1981 to 1983.

Prior to his judicial appointment, Boggs served with distinction in senior positions in the energy sector: first as assistant to the Chairman of the Federal Power Commission from 1975 to 1977; then as deputy minority counsel for the United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources from 1977 to 1979. Following his appointment as special assistant to the President in the Executive Office of the President , Boggs served in the Reagan administration as Deputy Secretary of the United States Department of Energy from 1983 to 1986. He received the Department of Energy Secretary's Gold Medal.

Federal judicial service

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Nomination and judicial career

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On January 29, 1986, Boggs was nominated by President Ronald Reagan to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (Cincinnati, Ohio) to take a new seat authorized by 98 Stat. 333. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on March 3, 1986, and received his commission on March 25, 1986. From 2003 to 2009, Boggs served as Chief Judge of the Sixth Circuit. During his judicial career, he was variously Secretary, Vice-Chair, and Chair of the Appellate Judges Conference of the American Bar Association from 2001 to 2002 and a member of the Judicial Conference of the United States from 2003 to 2009.

Boggs was on the short list of President George W. Bush 's candidates for the U.S. Supreme Court . He assumed [senior status](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senio

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Grutter v. Bollinger

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288 F.3d 732 (6th Cir. 2002) , aff'd, 539 U.S. 306 (2003) . The University of Michigan Law School appealed a district court's decision that the law school's consideration of race and ethnicity in its admissions decisions violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. The divided Sixth Circuit, sitting en banc, reversed five to four in an opinion written by Chief Judge Boyce F. Martin Jr., which held that the Law School's admissions policy was narrowly tailored to serve its compelling interest in achieving a diverse student body, and that its policy was therefore valid. Judge Boggs dissented, stating that the racial discrimination applied in the admissions policy of the law school would not pass even the slightest scrutiny, that the Law School's efforts to achieve a "critical mass" are functionally indistinguishable from an unconstitutional numerical quota for minorities, and that the majority opinion's analysis relying on the obscenity case Marks v. United States, 430 U.S. 188 (1977) was flawed. …