Benchlight The federal appellate judiciary

Appointment

Court
U.S. District Court for the District of Utah
Title
Judge
Appointed by
Jimmy CarterDemocratic president
Seat
UTD0104
Nominated
Aug. 28, 1978
Committee hearing
Sept. 14, 1978
Committee action
Reported (favorably)Sept. 20, 1978
Senate vote
Voice
Confirmed
Sept. 20, 1978
Commissioned
Sept. 22, 1978
ABA rating
Well Qualified
Chief Judge from
Jan. 1, 1984until Jan. 1, 1993
Senior status
Sept. 30, 1994
Service ended
Nov. 7, 2023Death

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.