ACS & FedSoc Present: Our Constitution: Differing Views, Common Ground (with U.S. District Judges Beaton and Boulware)

Please join ACS and FedSoc in conversation with Judges Boulware and Beaton.

Judge Richard F. Boulware II serves on the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada. Prior to taking the bench, he was a trial attorney in the Federal Public Defender's Office in Las Vegas, Nevada and in the Federal Defenders Office of New York in New York City. ​​Judge Boulware received an AB degree cum laude in 1993 from Harvard College and received his JD in 2002. After law school, he served as a law clerk to Judge Denise Cote of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. In 2013, Judge Boulware received the Dedicated Service award from Nevada Attorneys for Criminal Justice. He has served on numerous nonprofit boards and community committees focusing on education reform and other issues facing disadvantaged, indigent or at-risk individuals in the community.

Judge Benjamin Beaton serves on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky. Prior to joining the bench, Judge Beaton was a Partner at Squire Patton Boggs LLP, where he co-chaired the firm’s Appellate & Supreme Court practice group. Judge Beaton also served as an adjunct professor at the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law, where he taught constitutional interpretation. Before joining Squire Patton Boggs, Judge Beaton practiced in the Washington, D.C. office of Sidley Austin, LLP, and also served as a legal fellow with the International Justice Mission in Kampala, Uganda. Upon graduation from law school, Judge Beaton served as a law clerk to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the United States Supreme Court, and to Judge A. Raymond Randolph of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Judge Beaton earned his B.A., summa cum laude, from Centre College, and his J.D. from Columbia Law School.