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Appointment

Court
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Title
Judge
Appointed by
George W. BushRepublican president
Seat
CA20408
Nominated
Sept. 4, 2001
Committee hearing
Sept. 13, 2001
Committee action
Reported (favorably)Oct. 4, 2001
Senate vote
100โ€“0Roll Call
Confirmed
Oct. 11, 2001
Commissioned
Oct. 16, 2001
ABA rating
Well Qualified
Senior status
Oct. 10, 2009

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. District Court for the Southern District of New York Judge Sept. 15, 1994 Oct. 18, 2001 Appointment to Another Judicial Position William J. Clinton
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Judge Oct. 16, 2001 In service George W. Bush

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.