Danny Julian Boggs

Danny Julian Boggs (born October 23, 1944) is an American attorney and a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. He was appointed to the court in 1986 and served as its Chief judge from September 2003 to August 2009. Boggs was on the short list of President George W. Bush's candidates for the U.S. Supreme Court. Early life and education Born in Havana, Cuba, and raised in Bowling Green, Kentucky, Boggs attended College High School in Bowling Green, where he was a member of the debate team that won the 1959 Kentucky state debate championship. He received an Artium Baccalaureus (Bachelor of Arts) degree cum laude from Harvard University in 1965 and graduated from the University of Chicago Law School in 1968 with a Juris Doctor degree and a nomination to the Order of the Coif. At the University of Chicago, he won the Hinton Moot Court Competition and was an editor of the University of Chicago Law Review. Career