James B. Loken

James B. Loken (born in 1940 in Madison, Wisconsin) is a federal appeals court judge who has served on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit since 1990. Loken earned his B.S. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1962 and his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1965. After law school, he clerked for Judge J. Edward Lumbard of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals from 1965 to 1966 and for Associate Justice Byron White of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1966 to 1967. Loken was in private practice in Minneapolis, Minnesota from 1967 to 1970. He was General Counsel to the President's Committee on Consumer Interests in 1970 and a staff assistant to President Richard M. Nixon from 1970 to 1972. Loken returned to private...