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Appointment

Court
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky
Title
Judge
Appointed by
John F. KennedyDemocratic president
Seat
KYED0103
Nominated
Sept. 16, 1963
Committee hearing
Oct. 22, 1963
Committee action
Reported (favorably)Nov. 1, 1963
Senate vote
Voice
Confirmed
Nov. 4, 1963
Commissioned
Nov. 8, 1963
Chief Judge from
Jan. 1, 1969until Jan. 1, 1984
Senior status
Sept. 30, 1984
Service ended
Sept. 30, 1999Death

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.

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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.