Edward Roy Becker · Benchlight

Appointment

Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Title: Judge
Appointed by: Ronald ReaganRepublican
Seat: CA31003
Nominated: Nov. 16, 1981
Committee hearing: Nov. 25, 1981
Committee action: Reported (favorably)Dec. 1, 1981
Senate vote: Voice
Confirmed: Dec. 3, 1981
Commissioned: Dec. 3, 1981
ABA rating: Exceptionally Well Qualified
Chief Judge from: Jan. 1, 1998until Jan. 1, 2003
Senior status: May 4, 2003
Service ended: May 19, 2006Death

Source Federal Judicial Center.

Judicial service history

Every federal judicial office held, in order of appointment.

Court	Title	Commissioned	Ended	Appointed by
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania	Judge	Oct. 14, 1970	Jan. 22, 1982 Appointment to Another Judicial Position	Richard M. Nixon
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit	Judge	Dec. 3, 1981	May 19, 2006 Death	Ronald Reagan

Recent judicial activity

Opinions authored and panels sat on, most recent first.

Aug. 29, 1984

panel identified Sat on the panel in 6 soc.sec.rep.ser. 236, Medicare&medicaid Gu 34,106 Douglas J. Cospito v. Margaret M. Heckler, Etc., and the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals, Douglas J. Cospito, Cross-Appellees v. Margaret M. Heckler, Etc., and the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals, Cross-Appellant

Cases

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

Case	No.	Status	Date
6 soc.sec.rep.ser. 236, Medicare&medicaid Gu 34,106 Douglas J. Cospito v. Margaret M. Heckler, Etc., and the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals, Douglas J. Cospito, Cross-Appellees v. Margaret M. Heckler, Etc., and the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals, Cross-Appellant		Decided	Aug. 29, 1984

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.