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Appointment

Court
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Title
Judge
Appointed by
George W. BushRepublican president
Seat
CA60111
Nominated
Feb. 14, 2005
Committee action
Reported (favorably)May 26, 2005
Senate vote
96โ€“0Roll Call
Confirmed
June 9, 2005
Commissioned
June 10, 2005
ABA rating
Well Qualified
Senior status
Nov. 1, 2017

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 Western District of Michigan Judge Feb. 10, 1992 June 13, 2005 Appointment to Another Judicial Position George H.W. Bush
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit Judge June 10, 2005 In service George W. Bush

Recent judicial activity

Opinions authored and panels sat on, most recent first.

Cases

Appellate cases on which this judge sat, drawn from panel information published with each decision.

CaseNo.StatusDate
Cody Henderson v. Village of New Holland 26-3051 Decided Aug. 7, 2026
Larry Richardson v. Nathan Falk 25-1867 Decided Aug. 6, 2026
Kathleen Sullivan v. Timothy Miller 25-1773 Decided Aug. 6, 2026
United States v. Cody Dewayne King 25-5195 Decided July 28, 2026
Gertrude Crisp v. Scioto Ambulance Dist. 25-3885 Decided July 17, 2026
United States v. Joseph Harris 25-3694 Decided July 7, 2026
United States v. Austin Eugene Lineback 25-5687 Decided June 26, 2026
Nathan Roberts v. Progressive Preferred Ins. Co. 24-3454 Decided May 19, 2026
McKee Foods Corp. v. BFP Inc. 25-5416 Decided April 7, 2026
Brown-Forman Corp. v. NLRB 25-1060 Decided March 6, 2026
Generation Changers Church v. Church Mutual Ins. Co. 24-5700 Decided Feb. 23, 2026
Clarence Borns v. Troy Chrisman 25-1437 Decided Feb. 11, 2026
Brandi Booth v. Jonathan Lazzara 24-3894 Decided Jan. 14, 2026
United States v. Kelly Richards 24-3952 Decided Jan. 9, 2026
Roderico Filadelfo Perez-Perez v. Pamela Bondi 25-3146 Decided Nov. 21, 2025
LaNetra Kellar v. The Yunion, Inc. 25-1136 Decided Oct. 31, 2025
United States v. Darese Deandre Haile 25-1039 Decided Oct. 29, 2025
United States v. Tirrell Thomas 18-1592 Decided Aug. 6, 2019
Hendrickson United States, LLC. v. Nat'l Labor Relations Bd. 18-1144/1315 Decided Aug. 1, 2019
Lonnie Owens v. Mike Parris 17-5488 Decided July 30, 2019

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 โ€” not that the judge has written nothing.