Pasco Middleton Bowman II (born December 20, 1933) is an American attorney and jurist serving as a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
Pasco Middleton Bowman II
Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals
Chief Judge — U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Born 1933 in Harrisonburg, VA
FJC ID: 223
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 39/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 1,070/year
Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals · 1983–2003
Both charts share the same year axis. Opinion counts include only opinions in our corpus attributed to this judge so far — a year at zero can mean an attribution gap, not judicial silence. Influence typically outlasts the career: citations keep climbing after the last opinion.
- Gender
- Male
- Race
- White
Prior employment
- Judicial Conference of the United StatesMember · 1998–1999
Board member · 1996–1998
JAG CorpsU.S. Army Reserve colonel · 1959–1984
Dean/professor of law · 1979–1983
Visiting professor · 1978–1979
Dean/professor of law · 1970–1978
Faculty · 1964–1970- ↳assistant professor · 1964–1965
- ↳associate professor · 1965–1969
- ↳professor · 1969–1970
- Private practice, New York City1958–1964
Appointments
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth CircuitChief Judge1983–2003 · Appointed by Ronald Reagan (Republican)
Education
- LL.M. · 1986
J.D. · 1958- Bridgewater CollegeB.A. · 1955