United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
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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 North Dakota
- District of South Dakota
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.
