Benchlight The federal appellate judiciary

Appointment

Court
U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina
Title
Judge
Appointed by
Jimmy CarterDemocratic president
Seat
SCD0202
Nominated
April 18, 1980
Committee hearing
May 1, 1980
Committee action
Reported (favorably)May 20, 1980
Senate vote
Voice
Confirmed
May 21, 1980
Commissioned
May 23, 1980
ABA rating
Qualified
Senior status
Jan. 29, 2009
Service ended
March 1, 2016Retirement

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.

No panel assignments recorded in the ingested window.

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.