Benchlight The federal appellate judiciary

Appointment

Court
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Title
Judge
Appointed by
Barack ObamaDemocratic president
Seat
CA110902
Nominated
June 19, 2009
Committee hearing
July 29, 2009
Committee action
Reported (favorably)Sept. 10, 2009
Senate vote
Voice
Confirmed
Jan. 20, 2010
Commissioned
Jan. 28, 2010
ABA rating
Well Qualified
Service ended
Sept. 30, 2021Retirement

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 Northern District of Georgia Judge Aug. 3, 2000 Feb. 1, 2010 Appointment to Another Judicial Position William J. Clinton
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit Judge Jan. 28, 2010 Sept. 30, 2021 Retirement Barack Obama

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.