Benchlight The federal appellate judiciary

Appointment

Court
U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
Title
Judge
Appointed by
Ronald ReaganRepublican president
Seat
CACD2101
Nominated
Nov. 7, 1985
Committee hearing
Dec. 4, 1985
Committee action
Reported (favorably)Dec. 12, 1985
Senate vote
Voice
Confirmed
Dec. 16, 1985
Commissioned
Dec. 17, 1985
ABA rating
Qualified
Senior status
Dec. 19, 2000
Service ended
Nov. 10, 2014Death

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.