Benchlight The federal appellate judiciary

Appointment

Court
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (Supreme Court of the District of Columbia)
Title
Associate Justice
Appointed by
Abraham LincolnRepublican president
Seat
DCD0401
Nominated
Jan. 5, 1864
Committee action
Reported (no recommendation recorded)Jan. 18, 1864
Senate vote
30โ€“12Roll Call
Confirmed
Jan. 20, 1864
Commissioned
Jan. 20, 1864
Service ended
May 1, 1885Retirement

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.

No panel assignments recorded in the ingested window.

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.