Archibald K. Gardner

Archibald K. Gardner (December 3, 1867 – January 21, 1962) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. Education and career Gardner was born in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada. In 1892, he received an Artium Baccalaureus degree from the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa. The following year, he procured a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Iowa College of Law. From 1893 to 1895, he was engaged in the private practice of law in Greenfield in Dade County in southwestern Missouri. From 1895 to 1897, he practiced in Rapid City, South Dakota, where he was the city attorney from 1897 until 1904. He was thereafter from 1907 to 1929 the general attorney for the South Dakota division of the Chicago and North Western Transportation Company. Federal judicial service