Benchlight The federal appellate judiciary

Appointment

Court
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas
Title
Judge
Appointed by
Ronald ReaganRepublican president
Seat
TXSD0802
Nominated
Sept. 17, 1981
Committee hearing
Oct. 6, 1981
Committee action
Reported (favorably)Oct. 20, 1981
Senate vote
Voice
Confirmed
Oct. 21, 1981
Commissioned
Oct. 26, 1981
ABA rating
Qualified
Chief Judge from
Jan. 1, 2003until Jan. 1, 2009
Senior status
Nov. 13, 2009

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 — not that the judge has written nothing.