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Roger L. Wollman
Roger L. Wollman, born 1934, is an American jurist who served as chief justice of the South Dakota Supreme Court and as a judge on the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Roger Wilbraham
Sir Roger Wilbraham (1553-1616), English lawyer, Solicitor-General for Ireland from 1586 under Elizabeth I, later Master of Requests and Surveyor of the Court of Wards and Liveries under James I; kept a journal published in 1902.
Roh Moo-hyun
Roh Moo-hyun (노무현), 16th President of South Korea 2003–2008, human rights lawyer, survived a 2004 impeachment, pursued North Korea engagement, died in 2009.
Roland Freisler
Roland Freisler (1893-1945), Nazi jurist, State Secretary in the Reich Justice Ministry 1934-1942, Wannsee Conference participant, and President of the Volksgerichtshof from 1942, known for show trials, mass death sentences, and death in a 1945 Berlin air raid.
Roman magistrate
Roman magistrate (magistratus): elected or appointed executive official of the Roman state. Ordinary magistrates (consuls, praetors, quaestors, aediles, censors, tribunes) versus extraordinary ones (dictator, interrex); potestas and imperium, cursus honorum, annual tenure, tribunician veto.
Ron Clark
Ron Clark (born 1953) is an American jurist, a senior United States district judge for the Eastern District of Texas appointed by George W. Bush in 2002.
Ron Filipkowski
Ron Filipkowski is an American attorney, former Marine, and former state and federal prosecutor who became a political commentator as editor-in-chief of MeidasTouch.com after leaving the Republican Party in 2020.
Ron Kuby
Ron Kuby (Ronald L. Kuby), Manhattan criminal-defense and civil-rights lawyer, William Kunstler's partner 1983-1995, won $43M Goetz verdict, WABC radio co-host with Curtis Sliwa.
Ronald A. Guzman
Ronald A. Guzman, born in 1948 in Puerto Rico, is a senior federal judge in Illinois, appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1999 after serving as a magistrate judge.
Ronald Dworkin
Ronald Dworkin (1931-2013), American legal philosopher at Yale, Oxford, and NYU, challenged H.L.A. Hart's legal positivism with interpretivism and law as integrity, arguing judges are bound by legal-moral principles; wrote Taking Rights Seriously and Law's Empire, won the Holberg and Balzan prizes.
Ronald Hughes
Ronald Hughes, the "hippie lawyer," was Leslie Van Houten's defense attorney in the 1970 Tate-LaBianca Manson trial. He defied Manson over testifying, vanished during a camping recess at Sespe Hot Springs, and was found dead months later, cause undetermined.
Ronald L. Buckwalter
Ronald L. Buckwalter is an American jurist, a senior judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania appointed by George H.W. Bush in 1990.
Ronald L. Gilman
Ronald L. Gilman, also known as Ronald Lee Gilman, is an American jurist and senior judge on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, appointed by President Clinton in 1997.
Ronald M. Gould
Ronald M. Gould, born Ronald Murray Gould in 1946, is an American jurist serving as a judge on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals since 1999, appointed by President Clinton.
Ronnie Abrams
Ronnie Abrams (born 1968) is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge of the Southern District of New York since 2012, appointed by President Barack Obama.
Roopali H. Desai
Roopali H. Desai, born in 1978 in Toronto, is an American jurist serving as a Ninth Circuit judge since 2022, the first South Asian person appointed to that court.
Rosanna M. Peterson
Rosanna Malouf Peterson, born 1951, is a senior U.S. district judge for the Eastern District of Washington, appointed by Obama in 2010 and chief judge from 2011 to 2016.
Roscoe Pound
Roscoe Pound (1870–1964) was an American legal scholar, Harvard Law School dean 1916–1936, and founder of sociological jurisprudence and the social engineering theory of law; he was also a trained botanist with a lichen named roscoepoundia after him.
Roseann A. Ketchmark
Roseann A. Ketchmark is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Western District of Missouri since 2015, nominated by President Barack Obama.
Rosemary M. Collyer
Rosemary M. Collyer (1945-2026), D.C. federal district judge (2002-2020), FISC presiding judge 2016-2019, first woman NLRB General Counsel and first woman chair of Crowell & Moring.
Rosemary Márquez
Rosemary Márquez (born 1968) is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the District of Arizona since 2014, nominated by President Barack Obama.
Roslyn O. Silver
Roslyn O. Silver, born 1946, is an American jurist serving as a senior judge of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona since 2013.
Ross Goodman
Ross Goodman, full name Ross Carl Goodman, is an American criminal defense attorney in Las Vegas, Nevada, and founder of Goodman Law Group, established in 2001.
Rossie D. Alston, Jr.
Rossie D. Alston, Jr., born 1957, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Virginia since 2019, nominated by President Trump.
Roy B. Dalton, Jr.
Roy B. Dalton, Jr., also known as Roy Bale Dalton, Jr., is an American jurist serving as a senior judge on the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida.
Roy Bean
Roy Bean (c. 1825–1903), saloonkeeper and justice of the peace at Langtry, Texas, self-styled "Law West of the Pecos," who held court in his Jersey Lilly saloon, never hanged anyone, and became a Texas folk legend.
Roy Cohn
Roy Marcus Cohn (1927–1986), American lawyer: Rosenberg trial prosecutor, Senator Joseph McCarthy's chief counsel, and New York fixer whose clients ranged from Donald Trump to Mafia bosses; disbarred in 1986, died of AIDS.
Roy K. Altman
Roy K. Altman, born Roy Kalman Altman in 1982, is a United States district judge for the Southern District of Florida, appointed by President Trump in 2019.
Roy Moore
Roy Moore (Roy Stewart Moore, born 1947), Alabama chief justice twice disciplined over the Ten Commandments monument and same-sex marriage orders, 2017 Republican Senate nominee, and defamation litigant against Senate Majority PAC.
Royce C. Lamberth
Royce C. Lamberth, born 1943 in San Antonio, Texas, is a senior judge of the US District Court for the District of Columbia, appointed by Reagan in 1987.