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Appointment

Court
U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
Title
Judge
Appointed by
None (reassignment)None (reassignment) president
Seat
CADC0701
Commissioned
Sept. 1, 1948
Chief Judge from
Jan. 1, 1948until Jan. 1, 1955
Service ended
May 28, 1955Death

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. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Associate Justice July 27, 1935 March 9, 1948 Appointment to Another Judicial Position Franklin D. Roosevelt
U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Chief Justice March 5, 1948 Sept. 1, 1948 Reassignment Harry S Truman
U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Judge Sept. 1, 1948 May 28, 1955 Death None (reassignment)

Recent judicial activity

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Cases

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Judicial writings

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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.