Benchlight The federal appellate judiciary

Appointment

Court
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Title
Judge
Appointed by
George W. BushRepublican president
Seat
CA52002
Nominated
Feb. 6, 2004
Committee action
Not Reported
Commissioned
Jan. 16, 2004
ABA rating
Well Qualified
Service ended
Dec. 8, 2004Retirement

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 Southern District of Mississippi Judge Oct. 1, 1990 Jan. 16, 2004 Appointment to Another Judicial Position George H.W. Bush
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Judge Jan. 16, 2004 Dec. 8, 2004 Retirement George W. Bush

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.

No panel assignments recorded in the ingested window.

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.