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American judge (born 1947)

Gary August Fenner (born January 31, 1947) is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri .

Education and career

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Born in St. Joseph , Missouri , Fenner received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Kansas in Lawrence , Kansas in 1970 and a Juris Doctor from the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law in 1973. He was in private practice in Platte City , Missouri in 1973. He was an assistant city attorney of City of St. Joseph from 1973 to 1977. He was a business law instructor, Webster College from 1976 to 1977. He was in private practice in St. Joseph, Missouri from 1977 to 1979. He was a Circuit judge on the Fifth Judicial Circuit Court of Missouri from 1979 to 1987. He was a judge on the Missouri Court of Appeals , Western District from 1988 to 1996, serving as chief judge from 1994 to 1996.

Federal judicial service

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Fenner was nominated by President Bill Clinton on December 13, 1995, to be a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri, to a seat vacated by Scott Olin Wright . He was confirmed by the United States Senate on July 10, 1996, and received his commission on July 25, 1996. He assumed senior status on September 8, 2015.

Undisclosed luxury travel

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In May 2024, NPR revealed that Fenner had received free travel in December 2021 to the Breakers Colloquium, a privately funded legal seminar hosted at The Breakers resort in Palm Beach , Florida, but had failed to disclose this on his required annual financial disclosure report for that year, in violation of federal law. In response, Fenner told NPR, "I’m embarrassed about the fact that somehow that was overlooked by me. But I don’t have really an excuse for it, and I’m going to correct it."

References

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  1. Hearings before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Fourth Congress, Second Session, on Confirmation of Appointees to the Federal Judiciary, February 28; March 27; May 2; June 25; July 31; September 24, 1996 . U.S. Government Printing Office. 1997. p. 162.

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    Dreisbach, Tom; Johnson, Carrie (2024-05-01). "When judges get free trips to luxury resorts, disclosure is spotty" . _NPR _. Archived from the original on 2024-05-01. Retrieved 2024-05-07.

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