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Appointment

Court
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Title
Judge
Appointed by
Ronald ReaganRepublican president
Seat
CA20804
Nominated
April 26, 1982
Committee hearing
May 26, 1982
Committee action
Reported (favorably)June 17, 1982
Senate vote
Voice
Confirmed
June 18, 1982
Commissioned
June 21, 1982
ABA rating
Well Qualified
Senior status
May 22, 1993
Service ended
Jan. 31, 1995Retirement

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 Eastern District of New York Judge May 7, 1976 June 29, 1982 Appointment to Another Judicial Position Gerald Ford
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Judge June 21, 1982 Jan. 31, 1995 Retirement Ronald Reagan

Recent judicial activity

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  • No recorded activity.

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.