The Honorable Robert E. Bacharach has served as a United States Circuit Judge for the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals for over twelve years. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in History, with High Honors, from the University of Oklahoma — where he received the Tom Lottinville Award for the best essay in the History Department — before earning his Juris Doctor from Washington University School of Law in St. Louis in 1985, graduating Order of the Coif. He clerked for Chief Judge William J. Holloway, Jr. of the Tenth Circuit, practiced civil litigation at Crowe & Dunlevy in Oklahoma City for twelve years, and served as a U.S. Magistrate Judge in the Western District of Oklahoma before his 2013 appointment to the Tenth Circuit. Judge Bacharach is the author of Legal Writing: A Judge’s Perspective on the Science and Rhetoric of the Written Word (ABA Press) and has published six law review articles. He is the recipient of the Federal Bar Association’s Earl W. Kintner Award, the Oklahoma Bar Association’s Award of Judicial Excellence, and the Washington University School of Law Distinguished Alumni Award.