{{Short description|American judge}} {{Infobox judge | honorific_prefix = | name = Warren Keith Urbom | honorific_suffix = | image = Warren_K._Urbom.jpg | alt = | caption = | office = Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska | term_start = December 31, 1990 | term_end = July 28, 2017 | office1 = Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska | term_start1 = 1972 | term_end1 = 1986 | predecessor1 = Richard Earl Robinson | successor1 = C. Arlen Beam | office2 = Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska | term_start2 = April 24, 1970 | term_end2 = December 31, 1990 | appointer2 = Richard Nixon | predecessor2 = Robert Van Pelt | successor2 = Richard G. Kopf | pronunciation = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1925|12|17}} | birth_place = Atlanta, Nebraska, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|2017|7|28|1925|12|17}} | death_place = Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S. | education = Nebraska Wesleyan University (AB)<br>University of Michigan (JD) }}
'''Warren Keith Urbom''' (December 17, 1925 – July 28, 2017)<ref name=ned/> was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska.
==Education and career== Born in Atlanta, Nebraska, Urbom was a Technical Sergeant in the United States Army during World War II, from 1944 to 1946. He received an Artium Baccalaureus from Nebraska Wesleyan University in 1950 and a Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan Law School in 1953. He was in private practice in Lincoln, Nebraska from 1953 to 1970.
===Federal judicial service===
On March 11, 1970, Urbom was nominated by President Richard Nixon to a seat on the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska vacated by Robert Van Pelt. Urbom was confirmed by the United States Senate on April 23, 1970, and received his commission on April 24, 1970. He served as chief judge from 1972 to 1986. He was also an adjunct instructor at the University of Nebraska College of Law from 1979 to 1990. He assumed senior status on December 31, 1990.
==Later life and death==
Urbom assumed inactive status on April 25, 2014, meaning that while he remained a Federal Judge, he no longer actively heard cases or participated in court business.<ref name=ned>{{cite web | url=http://www.ned.uscourts.gov/public/judicial-archive/urbom-w-k | title=Urbom, Warren Keith | publisher=United States District Court for the District of Nebraska}}</ref> Urbom died in Lincoln, Nebraska on July 28, 2017, at the age of 91.<ref>Kevin Cole, [http://www.omaha.com/news/crime/judge-warren-k-urbom-presided-over-key-cases-during-decades/article_f006fc42-7566-11e7-b796-e30d5dfd6e82.html/ "Judge Warren K. Urbom presided over key cases during decades long career: Otey capital punishment appeal, Wounded Knee"] Omaha World Herald, July 30, 2017.</ref>
==See also== * List of United States federal judges by longevity of service
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Sources== * {{FJC Bio|2436|nid=1389051|name=Warren Keith Urbom<!--(1925–2017)-->}}
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