Chief Judge Robert Henry

United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit

In a public service career spanning nearly three decades, Judge Robert H. Henry has been honored to serve in each branch of government. From 1976 to 1986, he was a member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives, chairing the Judiciary and Education Committees and the Majority Caucus. The people of Oklahoma elected him Attorney General in 1986 and he was re-elected in 1990, he became the first Attorney General candidate in the state’s history to run unopposed. He held the positions of Dean and Professor of Law at the Oklahoma City University School of Law from 1991 until 1994. He was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in 1994 and became Chief Judge on January 1, 2008.

Judge Henry is a member of the Board of Directors for the VERA Institute of Justice in New York City and is a Life Member of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, serving Oklahoma since 1982. He currently serves on the Board of Advisors for the National State Attorneys General Program at Columbia University Law School and was selected by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor to serve on the Advisory Board for the Judicial Outreach Program of the American Society of International Law.

Chief Justice Rehnquist appointed Judge Henry as a member of the Committee on Codes of Conduct of the Judicial Conference of the United States, on which he served from 2004-2005. In 2005, the Chief Justice named Judge Henry Chair of the International Judicial Relations Committee. He chaired the International Judicial Relations Committee through April 2008, and is currently serving as a member of that committee.