Ronald Gould (judge)

Ronald Murray Gould (born 1946) is an American federal appeals judge who has served on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals since 1999.

Education and legal training

Gould received his B.S. from the University of Pennsylvania and his law degree from the University of Michigan Law School in 1973. He then clerked for Judge Wade H. McCree of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals from 1973 to 1974 and Associate Justice Potter Stewart of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1974 to 1975.

Professional career

Gould was in private practice for Perkins Coie in Seattle, WA from 1975 to 1999 and served as an adjunct professor at the University of Washington Law School from 1986 to 1989. He was a partner at Perkins Coie at the time of his appeals-court nomination. He also was president of the Washington State Bar Association.

Federal judicial service

Gould was nominated by President Bill Clinton for a seat vacated by Robert R. Beezer on the Ninth Circuit on January 26, 1999. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on November 17, 1999 in a voice vote and received his commission on November 22, 1999.

See also

• List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States

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