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Appointment

Court
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia
Title
Judge
Appointed by
Gerald FordRepublican president
Seat
WVSD0303
Nominated
Oct. 1, 1975
Committee hearing
Oct. 21, 1975
Committee action
Reported (favorably)Nov. 20, 1975
Senate vote
Voice
Confirmed
Nov. 20, 1975
Commissioned
Nov. 21, 1975
ABA rating
Qualified
Chief Judge from
Jan. 1, 1982until Jan. 1, 2002
Service ended
March 20, 2004Death

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 West Virginia Judge Nov. 21, 1975 Jan. 14, 1983 Reassignment Gerald Ford
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia Judge Nov. 21, 1975 March 20, 2004 Death Gerald Ford

Recent judicial activity

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Cases

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Judicial writings

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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.