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Appointment

Court
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Title
Judge
Appointed by
George W. BushRepublican president
Seat
CA52403
Nominated
Feb. 6, 2003
Committee hearing
March 27, 2003
Committee action
Reported (favorably)April 3, 2003
Senate vote
97โ€“0Roll Call
Confirmed
May 1, 2003
Commissioned
May 5, 2003
ABA rating
Well Qualified
Service ended
April 2, 2018Retirement

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 Texas Judge March 30, 1984 May 14, 2003 Appointment to Another Judicial Position Ronald Reagan
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Judge May 5, 2003 April 2, 2018 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.

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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 โ€” not that the judge has written nothing.