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Appointment

Court
U.S. District Court for the District of Montana
Title
Judge
Appointed by
George H.W. BushRepublican president
Seat
MTD0204
Nominated
Feb. 23, 1990
Committee hearing
April 26, 1990
Committee action
Reported (favorably)May 10, 1990
Senate vote
Voice
Confirmed
May 11, 1990
Commissioned
May 14, 1990
ABA rating
Well Qualified
Chief Judge from
Jan. 1, 1996until Jan. 1, 2001
Senior status
Jan. 30, 2001
Service ended
Jan. 13, 2020Death

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.

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Cases

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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.