Patrick J. Borchers

Patrick J. Borchers is a United States lawyer, university administrator and politician. He is a 1983 graduate of the University of Notre Dame, with a B.S. in Physics with Honors. He is a 1986 graduate of the University of California, Davis School of Law where he was elected to the Order of the Coif. He was a law clerk to the Hon. Anthony M. Kennedy from 1986-87 when Kennedy was a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Kennedy was later elevated to the U.S. Supreme Court by President Ronald Reagan. Borchers was a practicing lawyer in Sacramento, California. His most noteworthy case was Board of Supervisors v. Local Agency Formation Com., 3 Cal. 4th 903 (1992), in which he successfully represented before the California Supreme Court a citizens group attempting to form the new city of Citrus Heights, California. He later moved to Albany, New York where he became a Professor of Law and an Associate Dean of Albany Law School of Union University. In 1999 he was appointed Dean of the Creighton Law School, in Omaha, Nebraska serving until 2007. In 2007 he was appointed Vice President for Academic Affairs at Creighton, the Chief Academic Officer of the university. He stepped down in 2013 and was appointed director of the Werner Institute for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution at Creighton University. His academic specialities include private international law (conflict of laws), international arbitration and federal jurisdiction and procedure. He is the author, co-author or editor of seven books and approximate 60 law review articles. He has twice been elected (in 2009 and 2011) to Douglas Country, Nebraska Sanitary Improve District #498, and he currently serves as chair. He has been mentioned as a potential Republican nominee for the Senate seat held by the retiring Michael Johanns.

He is married to Judy Borchers and is the father of five children.