The Honorable Lyle E. Strom
Director Robert M. Spire
Externship Program and
Clinical Professor of Law
lyle_strom@ned.uscourts.gov

While at Creighton University School of Law, Judge Strom was a member of Alpha Sigma Nu and received the award for the Highest Triennial Average for the Class of 1953. He was in private practice in Omaha from 1953 until he was appointed to the U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska in 1985. From 1987 until 1994, he served as Chief Judge of the District Court. In 1995, he became a Senior Judge for the Court. He serves as chair of the Gender Fairness Task Force for the Eighth Circuit, co-chair of the Federal Practice Committee of the U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska, as a member of the Eighth Circuit Judicial Conference committee to Study Restructuring of the Judicial Conference, and as a member of the Executive Committee and Board of Trustees of the Mid-America Council of Boy Scouts of America. He has served as president of the Nebraska State Bar Association and the Omaha Bar Association, as a member of the House of Delegates of the Nebraska State Bar Association, and as a member of the Nebraska Supreme Court Committee on Practice and Procedure. He has written Nebraska Jury Instructions and Nebraska Rules of Evidence and had articles published in the Creighton Law Review and the Nebraska Law Review. He has been a member of the adjunct faculty of Creighton Law School teaching Municipal Corporations from 1958-1970 and Trial Practice from 1974-1995. He currently assists with the Externship Class.