Robert Toombs Dawson

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American judge (born 1938)

Robert Toombs Dawson (born August 1, 1938) is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas .

Education and career

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Born in El Dorado, Arkansas , Dawson received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Arkansas in 1960. He was in the United States Army from 1961 to 1962 and became a first lieutenant in artillery, and in the Arkansas National Guard from 1962 to 1965, where was also a first lieutenant. He received a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Arkansas School of Law in 1965, and was thereafter in private practice in Fort Smith , Arkansas until 1998.

Federal judicial service

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On November 7, 1997, Dawson was nominated by President Bill Clinton to a seat on the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas vacated by Hugh Franklin Waters . Dawson was confirmed by the United States Senate on April 2, 1998, and received his commission on April 7, 1998. He assumed senior status on August 14, 2009.

References

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 _[Official Army National Guard Register](https://books.google.com/books?id=2WWJhsQAhGsC&pg=PA216&dq=)
_, The Secretary of the Army, Department of the Army, [National Guard Bureau](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Guard_Bureau "National Guard Bureau")
, Washington, D.C., January 1, 1965, page 216.

Sources

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• Robert T. Dawson at the _Biographical Directory of Federal Judges _, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center .

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