Name Robert Rossiter, | ||
Alma mater Purdue University, West Lafayette
Creighton University Education Creighton University School of Law, Krannert School of Management | ||
Robert F. Rossiter, Jr. (born 1956) is a Nebraska attorney in private practice and is a nominee to be a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska.
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Biography
Rossiter received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1978 from Purdue University. He received a Juris Doctor, cum laude, in 1981 from Creighton University School of Law. He was a law clerk for Judge Clarence Arlen Beam of the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska from 1982 to 1983. Since 1983, he was served at the Omaha, Nebraska, law firm of Fraser Stryker PC LLO, becoming a shareholder in 1987. He has served on the firm's Management Committee since 2011. He specializes in labor and employment litigation, primarily in federal court. He is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers and is the immediate past State Chair of that organization. He is currently the President-Elect of the Nebraska State Bar Association.
Nomination to district court
On June 11, 2015, President Obama nominated Rossiter to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska, to the seat vacated by Judge Joseph F. Bataillon, who took senior status on October 3, 2014. He received a hearing before the Judiciary Committee on September 30, 2015. On October 29, 2015 his nomination was reported out of committee by voice vote. His nomination is now pending before the full Senate.