Benchlight The federal appellate judiciary

Appointment

Court
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Title
Judge
Appointed by
Barack ObamaDemocratic president
Seat
CA51504
Nominated
Jan. 6, 2014
Committee hearing
Feb. 25, 2014
Committee action
Reported (favorably)March 27, 2014
Senate vote
97โ€“0Roll Call
Confirmed
May 20, 2014
Commissioned
June 2, 2014
ABA rating
Well Qualified
Service ended
Aug. 31, 2022Resignation

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 Southern District of Texas Judge April 26, 2012 June 2, 2014 Appointment to Another Judicial Position Barack Obama
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Judge June 2, 2014 Aug. 31, 2022 Resignation Barack Obama

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.