Glenn L. Archer Jr., 82, retired chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, died of cancer July 27 at a hospice in Tempe, Ariz.
Judge Archer was named to the appellate bench for the Federal Circuit in 1985 by President Ronald Reagan, and he became chief judge in 1994. He retired and took senior status in 1997. The Federal Circuit considers cases involving such issues as patents and trademarks, veterans’ benefits, federal employment questions, and customs and imports.
Before his appointment to the court, Judge Archer was assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s tax division.
Glenn Leroy Archer Jr. was born in Densmore, Kan. He graduated from Yale University in 1951 and received a law degree from George Washington University in 1954.
From 1954 to 1956, he served in the Judge Advocate General’s office of the Air Force, then returned to Washington to practice law. He became a partner in Hopkins & Sutter, where he specialized in federal taxation and corporate law.
A former resident of Alexandria and Oxford on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, Judge Archer moved to Arizona about eight years ago.
He was an outdoorsman and boating enthusiast. He enjoyed kayaking in a kayak he built himself.
His first marriage, to Vera Poe, ended in divorce.
Survivors include his wife of 21 years, Carole Thomas Archer of Tempe; four children from his first marriage, Susan Archer of Arlington, Sharon Sibilia of Princeton, N.J., Glenn Archer III of Alexandria and Thomas Archer of Los Gatos, Calif.; a stepson, Mark Sather of Sandy, Utah; and eight grandchildren.
— Bart Barnes
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