H. Russel Holland

Hezekiah Holland
Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Alaska
Incumbent
Assumed office September 18, 2001
Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Alaska
In office July 16, 1984 – September 18, 2001
Appointed by	Ronald Reagan
Preceded by	James Arnold von der Heydt
Succeeded by	Ralph R. Beistline
Personal details
Born	1936 (age 79–80) Pontiac, Michigan, U.S.
Alma mater	University of Michigan University of Michigan Law School

Hezekiah Russel Holland (born 1936), more commonly known as H. Russel Holland, is a United States federal judge.

Born in Pontiac, Michigan, Holland received a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business in 1958 and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Michigan Law School in 1961. He was a law clerk with Justice Buell A. Nesbett of the Supreme Court of the Alaska in 1961. He was an assistant United States Attorney of the Anchorage, Alaska division from 1963 to 1965, and was then in private practice in Anchorage until 1984.

On March 6, 1984, Holland was nominated by President Ronald Reagan to a seat on the United States District Court for the District of Alaska vacated by James A. von der Heydt. Holland was confirmed by the United States Senate on March 26, 1984, and received his commission on July 16, 1984. He served as chief judge from 1989 to 1995, assuming senior status on September 18, 2001.

Judge Holland presided over the litigation ensuing after the Exxon Valdez disaster.

H. Russel Holland, Chief Judge for the United States District of Alaska, is a member of the Petroleum Club, a social organization that has many members associated with the oil industry.^[1][2]

References

1. New York Times
2. http://www.nytimes.com/1991/04/25/us/judge-s-ties-to-oil-industry-didn-t-matter-friends-say.html

Sources

• H. Russel Holland at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center.