Benchlight The federal appellate judiciary

Appointment

Court
U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico
Title
Judge
Appointed by
Ronald ReaganRepublican president
Seat
PRD0701
Nominated
June 2, 1982
Committee hearing
June 23, 1982
Committee action
Reported (favorably)July 12, 1982
Senate vote
Voice
Confirmed
July 13, 1982
Commissioned
July 15, 1982
ABA rating
Qualified
Senior status
Aug. 1, 1993
Service ended
June 11, 2011Death

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.