Judges and Judiciary
Dec. 27, 2013
Low-key Montana jurist set to become 9th Circuit's chief judge
Circuit Judge Sidney R. Thomas, set to succeed Alex Kozinski next year as chief of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, is in many ways an anti-Kozinski.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Circuit Judge Sidney R. Thomas, set to succeed Alex Kozinski next year as chief of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, is in many ways an anti-Kozinski.
Low-key and soft-spoken, Thomas keeps chambers in Billings, Mont., on the circuit's northeastern frontier, far from the circuit's high-energy California epicenter where the flamboyant Kozinski presides.
Unlike Kozinski, who has spe...
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