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Appointment

Court
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Title
Judge
Appointed by
None (reassignment)None (reassignment) president
Seat
CA111001
Commissioned
Oct. 1, 1981
Senior status
Jan. 31, 1986
Service ended
May 11, 1999Death

Source Federal Judicial Center, Biographical Directory of Article III Judges. Party shown is the party of the appointing president, which is a fact about the president, not about the judge.

Judicial service history

Every federal judicial office held, in order of appointment.

CourtTitleCommissionedEndedAppointed by
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia Judge Oct. 11, 1968 July 27, 1979 Appointment to Another Judicial Position Lyndon B. Johnson
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Judge July 13, 1979 Oct. 1, 1981 Reassignment Jimmy Carter
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit Judge Oct. 1, 1981 May 11, 1999 Death None (reassignment)

Recent judicial activity

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Cases

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Judicial writings

No writings are attributed to this judge in the ingested records.

Source Authorship is recorded only where the source data carries it. For recent Courts of Appeals opinions CourtListener frequently publishes the decision as a single document without naming the authoring judge, so an absence here means the attribution is unavailable upstream — not that the judge has written nothing.