Ryan Wesley Bounds (born June 28, 1973) is an American attorney serving as an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Oregon.
Bounds had been a nominee for a position as a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Already controversial, the nomination lost bipartisan support for confirmation in the Senate when it was revealed that, as an undergraduate, Bounds wrote columns criticizing outrage over vandalism of a gay pride statue, arguing student efforts to promote racial diversity in fact entrench racial intolerance, suggesting multicultural campus groups were in reality an effort to extort the university, and asserting "there is nothing really inherently wrong with the University failing to punish an alleged rapist—regardless his guilt—in the absence of adequate certainty," among other things.
In July 2018, Mitch McConnell withdrew the nomination.