Title: A resolution honoring the life and legacy of Judge Lee Roy West.
Policy area: Law

Summary:
This resolution honors the life and legacy of Judge Lee Roy West, a federal judge from Oklahoma.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 599 Agreed to Senate (ATS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
S. RES. 599

          Honoring the life and legacy of Judge Lee Roy West.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 21, 2020

   Mr. Lankford (for himself and Mr. Inhofe) submitted the following 
             resolution; which was considered and agreed to

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                               RESOLUTION


 
          Honoring the life and legacy of Judge Lee Roy West.

Whereas Judge Lee Roy West was born in Clayton, Oklahoma, on November 26, 1929, 
        and died on April 24, 2020, in Muskogee, Oklahoma;
Whereas Judge Lee Roy West was the youngest of 4 children in a family he called 
        ``too poor to paint and too proud to whitewash'';
Whereas Judge Lee Roy West graduated from Antlers High School in 1948 and 
        hitchhiked to Norman, Oklahoma, to attend the University of Oklahoma;
Whereas Judge Lee Roy West received a bachelor of arts degree from the 
        University of Oklahoma in 1952;
Whereas Judge Lee Roy West graduated from Harvard Law School with a juris doctor 
        in 1956 and later earned a master of laws from Harvard Law School in 
        1963;
Whereas Judge Lee Roy West served the United States with the 3rd Marine Division 
        in Japan and the 1st Marine Division in Korea;
Whereas Judge Lee Roy West practiced law--

    (1) in Ada, Oklahoma, from 1956 to 1961 and from 1963 to 1965; and

    (2) in Tulsa, Oklahoma, from 1978 to 1979;

Whereas Judge Lee Roy West taught law at the University of Oklahoma College of 
        Law from 1961 to 1962 and was a Ford Foundation fellow at Harvard Law 
        School from 1962 to 1963;
Whereas Governor Henry Bellmon appointed Judge Lee Roy West to serve as a State 
        court judge for the 22nd Judicial District of Oklahoma, where he served 
        from 1965 to 1973;
Whereas, in 1973, President Richard Nixon appointed Judge Lee Roy West to the 
        Civil Aeronautics Board in Washington, D.C.;
Whereas, on September 28, 1979, President Jimmy Carter nominated Judge Lee Roy 
        West to serve on the United States District Court for the Western 
        District of Oklahoma;
Whereas the Senate confirmed the nomination of Judge Lee Roy West on October 31, 
        1979;
Whereas Judge Lee Roy West served as chief justice of the United States District 
        Court for the Western District of Oklahoma from 1993 to 1994;
Whereas Judge Lee Roy West served on the Federal bench in Oklahoma City for 
        nearly 40 years; and
Whereas Judge Lee Roy West was inducted into--

    (1) the Field Trial Hall of Fame in Grand Junction, Tennessee in 2004; 
and

    (2) the Oklahoma Hall of Fame in 2012: Now, therefore, be it

    Resolved, That the Senate honors--
            (1) the life and legacy of Judge Lee Roy West; and
            (2) the commitment of Judge Lee Roy West to his family, the 
        law, Oklahoma, and the United States.
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