Benchlight The federal appellate judiciary

Appointment

Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Title
Associate Justice
Appointed by
Ronald ReaganRepublican president
Seat
SCT0213
Nominated
Nov. 30, 1987
Committee hearing
Dec. 14, 1987
Committee action
Reported (favorably)Feb. 1, 1988
Senate vote
97โ€“0Roll Call
Confirmed
Feb. 3, 1988
Commissioned
Feb. 11, 1988
ABA rating
Well Qualified
Senior status
July 31, 2018

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. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Judge March 24, 1975 Feb. 18, 1988 Appointment to Another Judicial Position Gerald Ford
Supreme Court of the United States Associate Justice Feb. 11, 1988 In service Ronald Reagan

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.