Third Circuit
John Joseph Gibbons
Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Appointment
- Court
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
- Title
- Judge
- Appointed by
- Richard M. NixonRepublican
- Seat
- CA30504
- Nominated
- Dec. 5, 1969
- Committee hearing
- Dec. 16, 1969
- Committee action
- Reported (favorably)Dec. 16, 1969
- Senate vote
- Voice
- Confirmed
- Dec. 17, 1969
- Commissioned
- Dec. 18, 1969
- ABA rating
- Well Qualified
- Chief Judge from
- Jan. 1, 1987until Jan. 1, 1990
- Service ended
- Jan. 15, 1990Retirement
Source Federal Judicial Center.
Recent judicial activity
Opinions authored and panels sat on, most recent first.
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Feb. 6, 1987panel identified Sat on the panel in United States v. Felton
Cases
Appellate cases on which this judge sat, drawn from panel information published with each decision.
| Case | No. | Status | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States v. Felton | Decided | Feb. 6, 1987 |
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.