Robert E. Lewis

Robert E. Lewis (April 3, 1857 – July 31, 1941) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and previously was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado. Education and career Born in Cass County, Missouri, Lewis studied at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. Afterward, he read law to enter the bar in 1880. Lewis was then in private practice in Clinton, Missouri from 1880 to 1897, and as worked as a prosecuting attorney of Henry County, Missouri from 1883 to 1887. He was also a Republican candidate for Governor of Missouri in 1896 and a Judge of the 4th Judicial District of Colorado from 1903 to 1906. Federal judicial service