Benchlight The federal appellate judiciary

Appointment

Court
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California
Title
Judge
Appointed by
Franklin PierceDemocratic president
Seat
CASD0301
Nominated
Jan. 18, 1854
Committee action
Reported (no recommendation recorded)Jan. 23, 1854
Senate vote
Voice
Confirmed
Jan. 23, 1854
Commissioned
Jan. 23, 1854
Service ended
May 21, 1861Death

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.