Benchlight The federal appellate judiciary

Appointment

Court
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas
Title
Judge
Appointed by
Jimmy CarterDemocratic president
Seat
ARED0302
Nominated
Oct. 21, 1977
Committee hearing
Nov. 1, 1977
Committee action
Reported (favorably)Nov. 1, 1977
Senate vote
Voice
Confirmed
Nov. 1, 1977
Commissioned
Nov. 2, 1977
ABA rating
Well Qualified
Senior status
Jan. 1, 1989
Service ended
Jan. 23, 2007Death

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 Arkansas Judge Nov. 2, 1977 Dec. 1, 1990 Reassignment Jimmy Carter
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas Judge Nov. 2, 1977 Jan. 23, 2007 Death Jimmy Carter

Recent judicial activity

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Cases

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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.