The Historical Society of the United States Courts in the Eighth Circuit

District of Nebraska Branch

Members of the Board of Directors from this Branch
Branch Officers
Branch Regulations (PDF)
Branch Annual Reports
Branch Activities
Report on A History of the Nebraska Federal District Court, November 2006 (PDF)
History Prize Announcement (PDF)
Resolution for Preservation of Historically Significant Materials (PDF)
Membership Application (PDF)

Members of the Board of Directors from this Branch

The Honorable Richard G. Kopf
U.S. District Judge
586 Robert V. Denney Federal Building
100 Centennial Mall North
Lincoln, NE 68508
402-437-5252
402-437-5681 Fax
richard_kopf@ned.uscourts.gov

Jeanette Stull
Perry Guthery Haase & Gessford, PC, LLO
233 S. 13th St., Suite 1400
Lincoln, NE 68508
402-476-9200
jstull@perrylawfirm.com

Officers of the Nebraska Branch

Jeanette Stull, President

Frank Mihulka, Treasurer
Fitzgerald Schorr Barmettler & Brennan, PC, LLO
200 Regency One
10050 Regency Cir.
Omaha, NE 68114
402-342-1000
fmihulka@fitzlaw.com

John Sharp, Secretary
Baird Holm, LLP
1500 Woodmen Tower
1700 Farnam St.
Omaha, NE 68102-2068
402-636-8281
jsharp@bairdholm.com

Branch Activities

The Branch History

The branch engaged an historian from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln to write a history of the district, but progress has been delayed. A completion date is not fixed at this time.

The History Prize

On March 27, 2002 the Nebraska branch announced the Judge Robert Van Pelt History Prize

Videotaped Interviews with Judges

Chief Bankruptcy Judge Timothy J. Mahoney, Vice President of the Nebraska branch, oversaw a project to videotape interviews with Nebraska's federal judges who had recently retired or taken senior status. Professor Richard Shugrue, of the Creighton School of Law, conducted the interviews using the television production facilities at Creighton. These interviews are available in streaming video on the University Law Library's web site.

Archives Project

At the time judges retire or assume senior status, as the case may be, they are given a copy of the branch's " Resolution for Preservation of Historically Significant Materials."