Benchlight The federal appellate judiciary

Appointment

Court
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington
Title
Judge
Appointed by
Richard M. NixonRepublican president
Seat
WAWD0106
Nominated
May 28, 1974
Committee hearing
June 4, 1974
Committee action
Reported (favorably)June 12, 1974
Senate vote
Voice
Confirmed
June 13, 1974
Commissioned
June 20, 1974
ABA rating
Well Qualified
Senior status
Nov. 30, 1986
Service ended
July 7, 1989Death

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.