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10th Circuit Chief Henry Steps Down

By Robert J. Ambrogi

The chief judge of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Robert H. Henry, is stepping down, swapping his tenured position on the federal bench for a university presidency and tenured professorship. Henry will leave the court June 30 to become president and CEO of Oklahoma City University, where he will also be a tenured professor of law and political science. For Henry, this will be a return to OCU, a Methodist-affiliated university with a student body of 3,700 undergraduate and graduate students. He was dean of the OCU law school from 1993 to 1994, the year President Clinton nominated him to the 10th Circuit. He became chief judge in 2008. He also has a personal tie to the school: His son is a theater major there. Henry, 56, has a long record of public service in Oklahoma. He was the state's attorney general from 1987 to 1992 and was a member of the state House of Representatives from 1976 to 1986. He is a 1976 graduate of the University of Oklahoma College of Law. In 2008, he was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame. "The opportunity to return to Oklahoma City University as its president and CEO is...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on December 16, 2009 (boomark / email).