Benchlight The federal appellate judiciary

Appointment

Court
U.S. District Court for the District of Utah
Title
Judge
Appointed by
Richard M. NixonRepublican president
Seat
UTD0202
Nominated
June 17, 1971
Committee hearing
June 29, 1971
Committee action
Reported (favorably)July 21, 1971
Senate vote
Voice
Confirmed
July 22, 1971
Commissioned
July 22, 1971
ABA rating
Qualified
Chief Judge from
Jan. 1, 1978until Jan. 1, 1984
Senior status
Dec. 20, 1984
Service ended
March 24, 1996Death

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.

Recent judicial activity

Opinions authored and panels sat on, most recent first.

  • No recorded activity.

Cases

Appellate cases on which this judge sat, drawn from panel information published with each decision.

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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.