High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Bruce King (born January 1940) is a federal judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Born in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, King earned a bachelor's degree from West Virginia University in 1961 and a law degree from West Virginia University in 1968. King worked as an active duty officer in the U.S. Air Force from 1961 until 1964. After graduating from law school, King clerked for U.S. District Judge John A. Field from 1968 to 1969, and then worked in private practice in Charleston, West Virginia from 1969 until 1970. He worked as an assistant U.S. attorney from 1970 until 1974, and then returned to private practice in West Virginia between 1975 and 1977. King returned to government service in 1977, working as the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia from 1977 until 1981, prosecuting a number of high-profile political corruption, coal mine fraud and drug cases during his tenure as the top federal prosecutor in the region. He then returned to private practice, working as a lawyer in Charleston from 1981 until his appointment to the Fourth Circuit.