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Appointment

Court
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan
Title
Judge
Appointed by
George W. BushRepublican president
Seat
MIWD0503
Nominated
March 19, 2007
Committee hearing
May 10, 2007
Committee action
Reported (favorably)May 24, 2007
Senate vote
83โ€“4Roll Call
Confirmed
July 9, 2007
Commissioned
Aug. 6, 2007
ABA rating
Qualified
Senior status
March 1, 2021

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 โ€” not that the judge has written nothing.