Arlen Beam
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| Arlen Beam | |
| Current Court Information: | |
| United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit | |
| Title: | Senior Judge |
| Service: | |
| Appointed by: | Ronald Reagan |
| Active: | 11/9/1987 - 2/1/2001 |
| Senior: | 2/1/2001 - Current |
| Preceded by: | Donald Roe Ross |
| Past post: | District of Nebraska |
| Past chief: | 1986 - 1987 |
| Past term: | 11/18/1981 - 11/9/1987 |
| Personal History | |
| Born: | 1930 |
| Home State: | Stapleton, NE |
| Bachelors: | U. of Nebraska, B.S., 1951 |
| Law School: | U. of Nebraska College of Law, J.D., 1965 |
| Military service: | U.S. Army 1951 - 1953 |
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Clarence Arlen Beam (b. 1930) is a federal judge with the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. He joined the court in 1987 after being nominated by President Ronald Reagan. Beam is serving on senior status. His duty station is based out of Lincoln, NE.
Early life and education
A native Nebraskan, Beam graduated from University of Nebraska with his Bachelor's Degree in and his juris doctor degree in 1965. Beam also served as a U.S. Army Captain from 1951 to 1953. [1]
Legal career
Beam spent his entire pre-judicial legal career as a private practice attorney licensed in the State of Nebraska from 1965 to 1982. [1]
Federal judicial career
District of Nebraska
Beam was nominated to the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska by Ronald Reagan on October 14, 1981 to a seat vacated by Robert Denney. Beam was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on November 18, 1981 on a senate vote and received commission on November 18, 1981. Beam served as chief judge of the court from 1986 to 1987 before ending his judgeship on November 9, 1987, due to appointment to Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. [1]
Eighth Circuit
Beam was nominated to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit by President Ronald Reagan on July 1, 1987 to a seat vacated by Donald Ross. Beam was confirmed by the Senate on November 6, 1987 and received commission on November 9, 1987[2]. Beam assumed senior status on February 1, 2001. [1]
Death threat
Judge Beam was subject to a death threat by an inmate in a Missouri prison. Jeffrey Phillips sent a threatening letter to judge after he was upset over how Beam handled a case involving his friends. Phillips pleaded guilty in his connection to threat and was sentenced to eight years in federal prison on March 22, 2010[3].
References
| Federal judicial offices | ||
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| Preceded by: Robert Denney | District of Nebraska 1981–1987 | Succeeded by: William Cambridge |
| Preceded by: Donald Ross | Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals 1987–present | Succeeded by: William Riley |
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| Active judges |
Chief Judge: Laurie Smith Camp • John Gerrard • Joseph Bataillon | ||
| Senior judges | |||
| Magistrate judges | Thomas Thalken • F.A. Gossett III • Cheryl Renae Zwart • | ||
| Former Article III judges |
William Cambridge • Arlen Beam • Elmer Scipio Dundy • William Douglas McHugh • William Henry Munger • Thomas Charles Munger • Joseph William Woodrough • James Donohoe • Thomas Shanahan • John Delehant • Robert Denney • Richard Dier • Albert Schatz • Robert Van Pelt • Richard Robinson • | ||
| Former Chief judges |
Joseph Bataillon • Richard Kopf • Lyle Strom • Warren Urbom • William Cambridge • Arlen Beam • James Donohoe • John Delehant • Richard Robinson • | ||
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| 1981 |
Bartlett • Beam • Becker • Bork • Cacheris • Cardamone • Chapman • Coughenour • Cox • Crow • Cyr • Doumar • Eschbach • Forrester • Garwood • Gibson • Glasser • Hall • Hamilton • Head • Jones • Kiser • Krenzler • Lee • Magnuson • McLaughlin • Miner • Moore • Nowlin • O'Connor • Pierce • Posner • Potter • Russell • Ryan • Shabaz • Sprizzo • Stevens • Waters • Wilhoit • Wilkins • Winter | ||
| 1982 |
Acker • Acosta • Altimari • Bell • Bissell • Black • Bullock • Caldwell • Coffey • Contie • Coyle • Dowd • Fagg • Fong • Fox • Gadbois • Gibson • Ginsburg • Hart • Higginbotham • Hogan • Irving • Jackson • Jolly • Kanne • Kovachevich • Krupansky • Lynch • Mansmann • McNamara • Mencer • Mentz • Mihm • Moody • Nordberg • Paul • Pieras • Plunkett • Porfilio • Potter • Pratt • Rafeedie • Restani • Roberts • Scalia • Selya • Telesca • Wellford | ||
| 1983 |
Baldock • Barbour • Barry • Bowman • Carman • Carter • Curran • Davis • Dorsey • Feldman • Fish • Flaum • Gibbons • Hallanan • Harris • Hinojosa • Hull • Hupp • Katz • Keenan • Kelly • Kram • Laffitte • Limbaugh, Sr. • Limbaugh, Sr. • Milburn • Nesbitt • Nevas • O'Neill • Rymer • Sharp • Starr • Vinson • Vukasin • Wexler • Woods | ||
| 1984 |
Barker • Beezer • Biggers • Billings • Bissell • Boyle • Brewster • Browning • DiCarlo • Duhe • Garcia • George • Hall • Hargrove • Higgins • Hill • Holland • Ideman • Jarvis • Keller • Leavy • Lee • Legge • Leisure • Little • Livaudais • Longobardi • McKibben • Milburn • Newman • Norgle • Prado • Rea • Rosenblatt • Rovner • Scirica • Smith, Jr. • Sneeden • Stotler • Suhrheinrich • Torruella • Wiggins • Wilkinson | ||
| 1985 |
Alley • Altimari • Anderson • Aquilino • Archer • Arnold • Baldock • Batchelder • Battey • Broomfield • Brown • Brown • Brunetti • Buckley • Cobb • Conmy • Cowen • Davidson • Dimmick • Duff • Easterbrook • Edgar • Farnan • Fernandez • Fitzpatrick • Fuste • Greene • Gunn • Guy • Hall • Hilton • Holderman • Hughes • Johnson • Jones • Korman • Kozinski • La Plata • Leinenweber • Letts • Lovell • Ludwig • Maloney • Mansmann • Marcus • McDonald • Meredith • Miller • Mills • Miner • Motz • Nelson • Noonan • Porfilio • Revercomb • Rhoades • Ripple • Rodriguez • Rosenbaum • Roth • Ryan • Sam • Scott • Sentelle • Silberman • Sporkin • Stanton • Stapleton • Strand • Strom • Tacha • Tevrizian • Thompson • Todd • Tsoucalas • Walker • Walter • Weber • Williams • Wilson • Wingate • Wolf • Wollman • Young • Zloch | ||
| 1986 |
Anderson • Boggs • Bryan • Cedarbaum • Cholakis • Conway • Davies • Dearie • Dubina • Duggan • Edmondson • Fawsett • Fitzwater • Gex • Graham • Hackett • Hansen • Henderson • Hittner • Howard • Jensen • Kay • Kleinfeld • Kosik • Lagueux • Lechner • Magill • Mahoney • Manion • McAvoy • McQuade • Norris • O'Scannlain • Rehnquist • Ryskamp • Scalia • Selya • Simpson • Smalkin • Spencer • Stiehl • Wilkins • Williams • Woodlock • Zatkoff | ||
| 1987 |
Alesia • Beam • Bell • Conboy • Cowen • Cummings • Daronco • Doty • Dwyer • Ebel • Ellis • Gadola • Gawthrop • Greenberg • Harrington • Howard • Hoyt • Hutchinson • Kanne • Kelly • Larimer • Leavy • Lew • Marsh • Mayer • McKinney • Michel • Mukasey • Musgrave • Niemeyer • Parker • Phillips • Politan • Pro • Raggi • Reasoner • Reed • Scirica • Sentelle • Smith • Smith • Stadtmueller • Standish • Tinder • Torres • Trott • Turner • Van Antwerpen • Voorhees • Webb • Whipple • Wolin • Wolle • Wood • Zagel | ||
| 1988 |
Arcara • Babcock • Brorby • Butler • Cambridge • Camp • Conlon • Cox • Dubois • Duhe • Ezra • Forester • Friedman • Garza • Hutton • Jordan • Kennedy • Lake • Lamberth • Lifland • Lozano • Marovich • Nygaard • Patterson • Schell • Smith • Smith • Tilley • Waldman • Zilly | ||
