Kenneth D. Bell

Kenneth D. Bell
Personal details
Born Kenneth Duard Bell[1]
1958 (age 59–60)
Bedford, Ohio, U.S.
Political party Republican
Education Wake Forest University (BA, JD)

Kenneth Davis Bell Sr. (born 1958)[1] is an American lawyer. Currently a partner at McGuireWoods, he has been nominated to become a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina.

Early life

Bell earned his Bachelor of Arts from Wake Forest University and his Juris Doctor from the Wake Forest University School of Law.[2][3] In 1990, he unsuccessfully ran for North Carolina's 5th congressional district as a Republican.

In the Western District of North Carolina, Bell served as an Assistant United States Attorney for eight years and then as First Assistant U.S. Attorney for ten years. In 2003, he received the Department of Justice's John Marshall Award for prosecuting the first conviction of material support to a terrorist organization, which was by a Hezbollah cell. He later was a partner at Hunton & Williams and Mayer Brown. He is currently a partner at McGuireWoods.[3]

Nomination to district court

On April 10, 2018, President Trump announced his intent to nominate Bell to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina. On April 12, 2018, his nomination was sent to the Senate. He has been nominated to the seat vacated by Judge Richard Lesley Voorhees, who assumed senior status on August 31, 2017. His nomination is currently pending before the Senate Judiciary Committee.[4] On August 22, 2018, a hearing on his nomination was held before the Senate Judiciary Committee.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary: Questionnaire for Judicial Nominees: Kenneth Davis Bell
  2. ↑ "President Donald J. Trump Announces Twelfth Wave of Judicial Nominees, Twelfth Wave of United States Attorneys, and Sixth Wave of United States Marshals". whitehouse.gov. April 10, 2018. Retrieved April 10, 2018. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  3. 1 2 "Kenneth D. Bell bio". McGuireWoods. Retrieved April 10, 2018.
  4. ↑ "Twenty-Nine Nominations Sent to the Senate Today", The White House, April 12, 2018
  5. ↑ United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary: Nominations for August 22, 2018
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