Benchlight The federal appellate judiciary

Appointment

Court
U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
Title
Judge
Appointed by
William J. ClintonDemocratic president
Seat
CACD0204
Nominated
Jan. 26, 1999
Committee hearing
June 16, 1999
Committee action
Reported (favorably)June 24, 1999
Senate vote
94โ€“4Roll Call
Confirmed
June 30, 1999
Commissioned
July 7, 1999
ABA rating
Well Qualified
Senior status
March 13, 2014
Service ended
Jan. 5, 2015Retirement

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 โ€” not that the judge has written nothing.