Benchlight The federal appellate judiciary

Appointment

Court
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas
Title
Judge
Appointed by
Richard M. NixonRepublican president
Seat
ARED0109
Nominated
Jan. 23, 1970
Committee hearing
July 17, 1970
Committee action
Reported (favorably)Aug. 4, 1970
Senate vote
Voice
Confirmed
Aug. 5, 1970
Commissioned
Aug. 6, 1970
ABA rating
Well Qualified
Chief Judge from
Jan. 1, 1975until Jan. 1, 1991
Senior status
Aug. 1, 1991
Service ended
Nov. 26, 2017Death

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.

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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.