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Appointment

Court
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin
Title
Judge
Appointed by
William J. ClintonDemocratic president
Seat
WIED0402
Nominated
Dec. 7, 1995
Committee hearing
March 27, 1996
Committee action
Reported (favorably)April 25, 1996
Senate vote
Voice
Confirmed
July 17, 1996
Commissioned
July 29, 1996
ABA rating
Well Qualified
Chief Judge from
Jan. 1, 2009until Jan. 1, 2012
Senior status
Oct. 31, 2012
Service ended
March 31, 2017Retirement

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.