Roger Wollman
2018 - Present
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Roger Leland Wollmann is a federal judge on senior status on the United States Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit. He joined the court in 1985 after being nominated by former President Ronald Reagan (R). Wollman retired from full-time service, assuming senior status, on December 11, 2018.
Early life and education
Born in Frankfort, South Dakota, Wollmann graduated from Tabor College with his B.A. in 1957, from the University of South Dakota School of Law with his J.D. in 1962, and from Harvard Law School with his LL.M. in 1964.[1]
Military career
From 1957 to 1959, Wollman served in the United States Army.[1]
Professional career
- 1967-1971: State's attorney, Brown County, South Dakota
- 1964-1971: Private practice, Aberdeen, S.D.
- 1962-1963: Law clerk, Hon. George Michelson, United States District Court for the District of South Dakota[1]
Judicial career
- 1985-2018: Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit
- 1999-2002: Chief judge
- 1971-1985: Justice, South Dakota Supreme Court
- 1978-1982: Chief justice
Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals
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| Nominee Information |
| Name: Roger L. Wollman |
| Court: United States Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit |
| Progress |
| Confirmed 24 days after nomination. |
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Wollman was nominated to the United States Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit by President Ronald Reagan (R) on June 25, 1985, to a new seat created by 98 Stat. 333. Hearings on Wollman's nomination were held before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary on July 17, 1985, and his nomination was reported July 18 by U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.) Wollman was confirmed on a voice vote of the U.S. Senate on July 19, 1985, and he received his commission on July 22. Wollmann served as chief judge of the court from 1999 to 2002.[1][2] He retired from full-time service, assuming senior status, on December 11, 2018.
Noteworthy cases
SCOTUS reverses Eighth Circuit judgment on federal court abstention (2013)
On December 10, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the judgment of a three-judge panel of the Eighth Circuit. Judge Roger Wollman delivered the opinion of the circuit panel.
In 2010, the Iowa Utilities Board (IUB) held that federal law allowed non-Sprint providers to charge access fees to Sprint Communications for certain Sprint-originated voice over internet protocol (VoIP) calls. Sprint appealed that decision in both Iowa state courts and in a federal district court in Iowa, seeking declaratory and injunctive relief. Responding to Sprint's filings in federal court, the IUB filed a motion asking the federal court to abstain and to dismiss the case under what is known as the Younger doctrine. The doctrine, named for the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Younger v. Harris, mandates that federal courts cannot issue any injunction against an ongoing criminal prosecution in state courts. The federal district court determined that Younger applied and dismissed Sprint's complaint in federal court. A three-judge panel of the Eighth Circuit, in an opinion by Judge Roger Wollman, affirmed the lower court's decision to abstain, but vacated the lower court's decision to dismiss, holding that issuing a judicial stay was required and not dismissal.[3]
Writing for a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg reversed the circuit panel, holding that the Younger doctrine "only required a court to abstain when there are parallel criminal cases in federal and state courts or when there are certain civil proceedings that are very similar to criminal ones."[4][5]
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Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Federal Judicial Center, "Biographical directory of federal judges," accessed July 26, 2016
- ↑ United States Congress, "Biographical directory of federal judges," accessed July 26, 2016
- ↑ U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, Sprint Communications Company, L.P., v. Elizabeth S. Jacobs et al., September 4, 2012
- ↑ Supreme Court of the United States, Sprint Communications Company v. Jacobs, December 10, 2013
- ↑ Oyez.org, "Sprint Communications Co. v. Jacobs," accessed October 12, 2017
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Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals 1985–2018 |
Succeeded by: Jonathan Kobes
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| 1981 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 | ||
