Judge Richard Arnold of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will speak at UNLV on Feb. 22 as a guest of the university's William S. Boyd School of Law.

His presentation is scheduled for 7 p.m. in the Marietta Tiberti Grand Hall of the Richard Tam Alumni Center. A reception will follow his talk. Those interested in attending are asked to RSVP by calling 895-3671 no later than Feb. 19.

Arnold originally was scheduled to speak at UNLV in October but had to postpone his presentation because of illness.

A highly regarded jurist whose name has been mentioned as a potential U.S. Supreme Court nominee, Arnold has served as chief judge of the 8th Circuit, as a member of the executive committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States, and as chair of the budget committee of the Judicial Conference.

An honors graduate of Yale and of the Harvard Law School, he clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Brennan and was an associate at Covington & Burling before returning to Arkansas to begin a law practice. After serving on the Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas and as a legislative assistant to U.S. Sen. Dale Bumpers, Arnold was appointed to the U.S. District Court in 1978. He was appointed to the 8th Circuit in 1980.

Arnold has served on the visiting committees of the Harvard Law School and of the University of Chicago Law School. He is a member of the Council of the American Law Institute and a fellow of the American Bar Association. Articles he has written have appeared in numerous law journals, including those of Harvard, Yale, Virginia, and Arkansas.

Arnold's lecture at UNLV is one in a series of talks being sponsored by the law school.