Benchlight The federal appellate judiciary

Appointment

Court
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri
Title
Judge
Appointed by
Richard M. NixonRepublican president
Seat
MOED0502
Nominated
June 13, 1973
Committee hearing
July 10, 1973
Committee action
Reported (favorably)July 13, 1973
Senate vote
Voice
Confirmed
July 13, 1973
Commissioned
July 18, 1973
ABA rating
Qualified
Chief Judge from
Jan. 1, 1983until Jan. 1, 1990
Senior status
May 10, 1990
Service ended
Aug. 24, 2008Death

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.