Warren Keith Urbom | |
Office: | Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska |
Term Start: | December 31, 1990 |
Term End: | July 28, 2017 |
Office1: | Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska |
Term Start1: | 1972 |
Term End1: | 1986 |
Predecessor1: | Richard Earl Robinson |
Successor1: | C. Arlen Beam |
Office2: | Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska |
Term Start2: | April 24, 1970 |
Term End2: | December 31, 1990 |
Appointer2: | Richard Nixon |
Predecessor2: | Robert Van Pelt |
Successor2: | Richard G. Kopf |
Birth Date: | 17 December 1925 |
Birth Place: | Atlanta, Nebraska, U.S. |
Death Place: | Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S. |
Education: | Nebraska Wesleyan University (AB) University of Michigan (JD) |
Warren Keith Urbom (December 17, 1925 – July 28, 2017) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska.
Born in Atlanta, Nebraska, Urbom was a Technical Sergeant in the United States Army during World War II, from 1944 to 1946. He received an Artium Baccalaureus from Nebraska Wesleyan University in 1950 and a Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan Law School in 1953. He was in private practice in Lincoln, Nebraska from 1953 to 1970.
On March 11, 1970, Urbom was nominated by President Richard Nixon to a seat on the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska vacated by Robert Van Pelt. Urbom was confirmed by the United States Senate on April 23, 1970, and received his commission on April 24, 1970. He served as chief judge from 1972 to 1986. He was also an adjunct instructor at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln College of Law from 1979 to 1990. He assumed senior status on December 31, 1990.
Urbom assumed inactive status on April 25, 2014, meaning that while he remained a Federal Judge, he no longer actively heard cases or participated in court business.[1] Urbom died in Lincoln, Nebraska on July 28, 2017, at the age of 91.[2]