Ex- Arkansan gets appeals court nod

One of President Donald Trump’s nominees for the bench of the 6th U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals is John Bush of Kentucky.

Bush, who grew up in Arkansas, is a 1982 graduate of McClellan High School — then in the Pulaski County Special School District, now part of the Little Rock School District. He obtained his bachelor’s degree from Vanderbilt University in 1986 and he graduated from Harvard Law School in 1989. In that same year, Bush was first admitted to practice law in Arkansas.

He is a partner in the Louisville office of Bingham Greenebaum Doll LLP. “He practices in complex litigation, including antitrust, securities, financial institutions, insurance, intellectual property and product liability disputes,” according to the law firm’s website.

Bush has served as president of the Federalist Society’s Louisville Lawyers Chapter, according to his law firm’s website. He was appointed as a member of the advisory committee on rules to the court, where he served from 2012- 15. He is a member of the Jefferson County, Ky., Executive Committee of the Republican Party.

Among his most high- profile cases was one in which he was among former President Ronald Reagan’s attorneys during the Iran- Contra investigation. Bush also helped represent former Los Angeles Police Sgt. Stacey Koon in his successful sentencing appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court in the Rodney King case.

The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies’ website describes itself as “a group of conservatives and libertarians interested in the current state of the legal order.”

Information for this article was contributed by Debra Hale- Shelton, Stacy Hawkins and Aziza Musa of the Arkansas DemocratGazette.