Roger Thomas Foley

Judge Roger Thomas Foley

Personal

Birthday:

5/25/1886

Birthplace:

Sioux City, IA

Date of Death:

10/9/1974

Race or Ethnicity:

White

Gender:

Male

Prior Employment:

Private practice, Goldfield, Nevada, 1911-1925
District attorney, Goldfield, Nevada, 1916-1924
Private practice, Los Angeles, California, 1925-1928
Justice of the peace/municipal judge, Las Vegas, Nevada, 1929-1931
Deputy district attorney, Las Vegas, Nevada, 1932-1934
District attorney, Las Vegas, Nevada, 1935-1938
Judge, Nevada District Court, Clark and Lincoln Counties, 1939-1941
Private practice, Las Vegas, Nevada, 1941-1945

Education

Name of School:

University of Chicago Law School

The University of Chicago Law School occupies a unique niche among this country's premier law schools. Located on a residential campus in one of America 's great cities, Chicago offers a rigorous and interdisciplinary professional education that blends the study of law with the humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences. Students, faculty, and staff form a small, tightly knit community devoted to the life of the mind. Learning is participatory. Chicago does not seek to impose a single viewpoint or style of thought on its students. Instead, our faculty exposes students to contrasting views, confident in students' abilities to choose their own paths.

Degree Year:

1910

Judicial Career

Court Name:

U. S. District Court, District of Nevada

Court Name:

Nevada District Court

President Nominating:

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Party Affiliation of President:

Democratic

Commission Date:

5/2/1945

Retirement from Active Service:

4/1/1957

Termination Date:

10/9/1974

Termination Reason:

Death