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IU Law Professor Sworn in as Judge on Appellate Level

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Maurer School of Law: Indiana UniversityDigital Repository @ Maurer LawSheldon Plager (1977-1984) Law School Deans11-12-1989IU Law Professor Sworn in as Judge on AppellateLevelKurt Van der DussenHerald TimesFollow this and additional works at: http://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/plagerPart of the Legal Biography Commons, Legal Education Commons, and the Legal ProfessionCommonsThis Writing about Dean Sheldon Plager is brought to you for free and openaccess by the Law School Deans at Digital Repository @ Maurer Law. It hasbeen accepted for inclusion in Sheldon Plager (1977-1984) by anauthorized administrator of Digital Repository @ Maurer Law. For moreinformation, please contact wattn@indiana.edu.Recommended CitationVan der Dussen, Kurt, "IU Law Professor Sworn in as Judge on Appellate Level" (1989). Sheldon Plager (1977-1984). Paper 16.http://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/plager/16c 1 IU law, professor swori( i~ :as judge , on appenate level i By KurtVan der Du .. an Sunday Herald-Times U.S. judicial history may . have· been made Saturday fught in Bloomington when Indiana Univer-sity Law ~ool Profess6r· Sheldo_!l:;;_ Jay Plager was swonr 1n - as a,.,  · member of the U.S. Court of Ap- ~~ · peals. · · · : ' · -•~"'~-. ~ : it · Plager wa& ·nominated-for ·the'!' judgeship by President Bush this :. summer. The U.S. Senate confirmed his appointment Wednesday before'.· recessing, and President Bush' .. signed it Friday. Federal District, Judge Sarah Evans Barker, a close· friend, swore Plager in Saturday .· night in a private ceremony at his , Bittner Woods home. > As for the history, Plager and his: Sheldon J. Plager wife, Ilene H .. Nagel, have been told body, since 1985. it is the first time in U.S. judicial;; · "fve been told that's true; I history ·that a husband and wife haven't researched that," said Plag-have served in the federal judiciary · er of the precedent he and his wife at the appellate level. ·~ were setting. But he said that given Nagel has served as a member of how recently it has been that wom-the U.S. Sentencing Commission, a federal appellate-level judicial see Judge, page A12 -c Al.2 Sunday Herald-Times, November 12, 1989 0 Staff photo by Kent Phillips Federal judge Sarah Barker, right, swears In Sheldon Plager's wife and fello~ appellate-level judge Ilene Plager before a gathering of friends Saturday night as Nagel holds the Bible . . Plager appointed appellate judge Judge, from page A1 en have moved into the higher levels of government, "I suspect it's true." "I think that we are," added Nagel. "It's kind of fun, both of us being from the IU Law School faculty." · Plager came from the University of Illinois in 1977 to serve as dean of the IU Law School unW 1984, serv-ing during the law school's $12 million addition and renovation project in the early 1980s. Since then he has remained on the fac-ulty part time, teaching courses in his specialties of environmental, property and administrative law. Nagel has been on the law school faculty since 1973, teaching various courses in criminal law. She has taught part time since her federal appointment. Plager, 58, received his Jaw de-gree from the University of Florida in 1958. He taught law at the univer-sities of Florida, Wisconsin and Illinois before coming to IU. i "Our plan is to live in the Wash-ington area and both of us hope to continue to teach part time at the IU Law School," he said, noting that is "not uncommon" for judges who are former Jaw professors. L' n r '"hn TV')C:t " 0 1 \· \"0:1r~ r-hP rounle has maintained a residence in Ox-ford, Md., both because of Nagel's position and because of high legal positions Plager was holding in the Reagan and Bush administrations. Plager took a leave of absence from the law school in 1986 to become counselor to the underse-cretary of Health and Human Serv-ices under then-HHS secretary and former Indiana governor Otis R. Bowen. After a year in that post, he was recruited by the Office of Man-agement and Budget (OMB) to over-see the budgets of several federal departments. · In July 1988, former President Reagan appointed Plager adminis-trator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs of the OMB, in which post he served until Oct. 31. Meanwhile, he has been teach-ing a fall semester seminar on administrative law at IU. Plager said President Bush called him in early July just before his trip to Poland and asked him to serve as a member of the U.S. Court of Appeals, federal circuit, which hears cases involving patents, copy-rights, trademarks and internation-al trade. His judicial nomination was sponsored by U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind. The Senate Judiciary Committee approved Plager 's nomination on >Jov ~- and the full Senate confirm-·ed. it Nov. 8. Bush made the appoint-ment official Friday. While his tenure begins immedi-ately, Plager said he will not take up the duties of office unW Jan-. I Uary. I 'Tm very pleased, of course," said Plager. "When I started life, it was not my intent (to serve in the federal judiciary), but it is a mar-velous opportunity and a great honor." 

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