Buescher Following in Big Footsteps
When Brian Beuscher was confirmed as Nebraska’s newest U.S. District Court judge, he joined a company of individuals of great integrity and independence going back 151 years.
In fact, Beuscher need look no further back than to the judge he replaced for a model of wisdom and courage. Judge Laurie Smith Camp, who took senior status and opened the way for the latest judge to be named, was the first female Nebraska federal judge following a career of dedicated public service.
Beuscher is almost the same age as the late Judge Warren Urbom when he was appointed to the bench by President Nixon in 1970 and proved himself to be a symbol of fairness and hard work through some 44 years of service.
The new jurist, a graduate of UNL and of Georgetown Law School, is the first trial court judge on the federal bench in Nebraska appointed by President Trump. Trump, at the August break of his third year in office, has had 99 district judges confirmed. That compares with 74 at the same time for President Obama, 117 for President George W. Bush and 138 for President Clinton. (See, Russell Wheeler, Brookings, Aug. 8, 2019.)
Having resigned from practice, I hope I can say without seeming to sound obsequious, Beuscher can look upon giants, such as John Delehant, Robert Van Pelt, and Lyle Strom (and, others of course,) as examples of great probity and fairness, who gave up any ideology and politics to be Solomonic.
He may be on the bench for decades and serve the nation as did the legendary Joseph Woodrough, who sat both on the district and Eighth Circuit courts for longer than any federal judge, 61 years and 186 days!
I was visiting in front of the old courthouse with a distinguished barrister in the early 70s when Judge Woodrough came by and, after he left, the lawyer asked me to guess who had appointed him. I foolishly guessed, “Truman.” “No,” my friend said, “Woodrow Wilson!”
May you have as long and rich career as he, Judge Buescher!
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