Benchlight The federal appellate judiciary

Appointment

Court
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio
Title
Judge
Appointed by
William J. ClintonDemocratic president
Seat
OHSD0802
Nominated
July 31, 1997
Committee hearing
Sept. 30, 1997
Committee action
Reported (favorably)Oct. 9, 1997
Senate vote
91โ€“0Roll Call
Confirmed
Oct. 27, 1997
Commissioned
Nov. 7, 1997
ABA rating
Qualified
Chief Judge from
Jan. 1, 2019until Jan. 1, 2024

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 โ€” not that the judge has written nothing.