PHILADELPHIA (AP) – A longtime stalwart of the federal bench in Philadelphia and a onetime finalist for the U.S. Supreme Court has died. Arlin Adams was 94.
A spokeswoman at Adams’ former law firm, Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis, says he died Monday night. She didn’t have any other details.
Adams spent 18 years on the bench of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia.
In 1968, he became one of the key people in Richard Nixon’s successful presidential bid. That led to Nixon appointing him to the appeals court in 1969.
In 1975, President Gerald Ford considered Adams as a nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court. He was one of two finalists but lost out to John Paul Stevens.