Benchlight The federal appellate judiciary

Appointment

Court
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
Title
Judge
Appointed by
Lyndon B. JohnsonDemocratic president
Seat
DCD0408
Nominated
Oct. 6, 1966
Committee hearing
Oct. 19, 1966
Committee action
Reported (favorably)Oct. 20, 1966
Senate vote
Voice
Confirmed
Oct. 20, 1966
Commissioned
Nov. 3, 1966
ABA rating
Qualified
Chief Judge from
Jan. 1, 1982until Jan. 1, 1992
Senior status
March 1, 1992
Service ended
Feb. 27, 2000Death

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.