Benchlight The federal appellate judiciary

Appointment

Court
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Title
Judge
Appointed by
William J. ClintonDemocratic
Seat
CA91403
Nominated
Nov. 8, 1997
Committee hearing
Nov. 12, 1997
Committee action
Reported (favorably)Nov. 13, 1997
Senate vote
Voice
Confirmed
Jan. 28, 1998
Commissioned
Feb. 4, 1998
ABA rating
Qualified
Senior status
Oct. 11, 2016

Source Federal Judicial Center.

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
Yajun Zhang v. Merrick Garland Decided June 22, 2022
Heidy Martinez-Santiago v. Merrick Garland Decided June 22, 2022
Robert Kreb v. Usdol Decided June 17, 2022

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.