Benchlight The federal appellate judiciary

Appointment

Court
U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee
Title
Judge
Appointed by
Franklin D. RooseveltDemocratic president
Seat
TNMD0202
Nominated
June 19, 1939
Committee hearing
July 6, 1939
Committee action
Reported (favorably)July 11, 1939
Senate vote
Voice
Confirmed
July 12, 1939
Commissioned
July 12, 1939
Chief Judge from
Jan. 1, 1954until Jan. 1, 1957
Service ended
Jan. 7, 1957Death

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.