Benchlight The federal appellate judiciary

Appointment

Court
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Title
Judge
Appointed by
Barack ObamaDemocratic
Seat
CA40902
Nominated
April 2, 2009
Committee hearing
April 29, 2009
Committee action
Reported (favorably)June 4, 2009
Senate vote
72–16Roll Call
Confirmed
Nov. 9, 2009
Commissioned
Nov. 10, 2009
ABA rating
Well Qualified
Senior status
Feb. 28, 2014
Service ended
Aug. 31, 2017Retirement

Source Federal Judicial Center.

Judicial service history

Every federal judicial office held, in order of appointment.

CourtTitleCommissionedEndedAppointed by
U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland Judge Aug. 14, 1995 Nov. 12, 2009 Appointment to Another Judicial Position William J. Clinton
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Judge Nov. 10, 2009 Aug. 31, 2017 Retirement Barack Obama

Recent judicial activity

Opinions authored and panels sat on, most recent first.

Cases

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

CaseNo.StatusDate
Robert Cooke v. Gene Johnson Decided Nov. 22, 2011
David Rabb v. Thomas McBride Decided Nov. 22, 2011

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.