Benchlight The federal appellate judiciary

Appointment

Court
U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
Title
Associate Justice
Appointed by
Franklin D. RooseveltDemocratic president
Seat
CADC0502
Nominated
Nov. 26, 1937
Committee hearing
Dec. 4, 1937
Committee action
Reported (no recommendation recorded)Dec. 8, 1937
Senate vote
Voice
Confirmed
Dec. 9, 1937
Commissioned
Dec. 15, 1937
Chief Judge from
Jan. 1, 1955until Jan. 1, 1958
Senior status
April 22, 1963
Service ended
Feb. 23, 1970Death

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.