Carlos Tiburcio Bea (born April 18, 1934) is a Senior

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of the

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. He was appointed to that court by President

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in 2003 to replace Judge Charles Edward Wiggins.

Biography

Bea was born in San Sebastian,

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and emigrated with his family in 1939 to

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. While present under a non-immigrant visa, he studied at Stanford University and received his

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degree there in 1956. He joined

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International Fraternity while at Stanford. In 1952, Bea represented Cuba as a member of the country's basketball team in the

Helsinki Olympics The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympialaiset 1952; sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1952), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad ( fi, XV olympiadin kisat; sv, Den XV olympiadens spel) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952 ( sv, Helsin ...

. Upon his return, he was put into deportation proceedings for allegedly avoiding the draft. Bea suggested to the immigration judge that he be drafted to cure the apparent violation, but the judge refused as the

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had already ended. Bea won his appeal at the Board of Immigration Appeals, opining that the lower court had abused its discretion. After having his residency reinstated and accumulating the requisite physical presence, Bea petitioned for and became a

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in 1959. He attended

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and received his Juris Doctor in 1958. He was in private practice in

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after that, but in 1990 he became a trial judge on the

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. He served there until his appointment to the Ninth Circuit in 2003.

Federal judicial service

Bea had previously been nominated in 1991 to be a federal district judge for the United States District Court for the Northern District of California by President George H. W. Bush, but he never received a vote in the Senate. Bush nominated Bea to the Ninth Circuit on April 11, 2003. The

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confirmed him on September 29, 2003 by a 86–0 vote. Bea received his commission on October 1, 2003. In June 2019, Bea announced that he will assume senior status upon the nomination, confirmation and appointment of his successor. He assumed

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on December 12, 2019.

Personal

His son is Olympic rower

Sebastian Bea Sebastian Bea (born April 10, 1977, in San Francisco, California) is an American rower. He won a silver medal in the men's pair at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, along with Ted Murphy, and is a 1999 graduate of the University of ...

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U.S. Department of Justice ProfilePress Release from the Ninth Circuit Announcing Bea's Investiture
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Federal judicial service

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