Feb. 22, 2012: U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Roger J. Miner, a longtime federal Appeals Court Judge who was once considered for the U.S. Supreme Court, died on Saturday, Feb. 18, 2012, at his home in Hudson, N.Y., according to The New York Times. He was 77. The cause was endocarditis, an inflammation of the membrane lining the heart, his wife, Jacqueline, said. In 1987, Miner, a member of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in Manhattan, was widely reported to be at the top of former President Ronald Reagan’s list of possible replacements for Judge Robert H. Bork, as the Bork nomination to the Supreme Court ended because of opposition. After Bork’s nomination was rejected, the White House passed over Miner and nominated Anthony M. Kennedy, a federal Appeals Court Judge from Sacramento. Kennedy was confirmed. Miner, though, retained a respected, long career in the judiciary. He was the Corporation Counsel for Hudson, N.Y., in the early 1960s; the Assistant District Attorney for Columbia County in 1964; and a District Attorney from 1968 to 1974. In 1976, he was elected to the New York State Supreme Court, and he was a trial Judge until 1981, when Reagan named him a U.S. District Court Judge. In 1985, Miner was elevated to the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. In 1997, Miner took senior status, with a reduced caseload—but he continued working on cases until just days before his death. Miner received his law degree from the New York Law School.
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