Boulware II, Richard Franklin, 1968-

Richard Franklin Boulware II (born October 12, 1968) is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nevada and former assistant Federal Public Defender.

Boulware received an Artium Baccalaureus degree, cum laude, in 1993 from Harvard College and studied toward a Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology from 1995–1998. He received a Juris Doctor in 2002 from Columbia Law School.

From 2002 to 2003, he served as a law clerk to Judge Denise Cote of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. From 2003 to 2007, he was a trial attorney in the Federal Public Defender's Office in New York City. He has served in the Federal Public Defender's Office in Las Vegas, Nevada since 2007, serving as the lead attorney for complex white-collar cases since 2010.

On January 16, 2014, President Barack Obama nominated Boulware to serve as a District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nevada to the seat vacated by Judge Philip Martin Pro, who took senior status on December 31, 2011. He received a hearing before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary on March 12, 2014. On April 3, 2014, his nomination was reported out of committee by a vote of 11–7.

On June 5, 2014, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid filed for cloture on the nomination. On June 9, 2014, the United States Senate agreed on the motion to invoke cloture by a vote of 53–34. The next day, the Senate voted 58–35 in favor of final confirmation. He received his judicial commission on June 10, 2014. He was sworn in on June 12, 2014.