Benchlight The federal appellate judiciary

Appointment

Court
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (Supreme Court of the District of Columbia)
Title
Chief Justice
Appointed by
Abraham LincolnRepublican president
Seat
DCD0101
Nominated
March 10, 1863
Committee action
Reported (no recommendation recorded)March 11, 1863
Senate vote
Voice
Confirmed
March 11, 1863
Commissioned
March 11, 1863
Service ended
April 16, 1887Death

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.

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.