Ernest Richard Webber Jr. (born June 4, 1942) is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri.

Webber was born in Kahoka, Missouri.

He received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Missouri in 1964, and a Juris Doctor from University of Missouri School of Law in 1967.

[1] Webber was nominated by President Bill Clinton on August 10, 1995 to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, to a seat vacated by Judge Edward Louis Filippine.

He assumed senior status on June 30, 2009.