Benchlight The federal appellate judiciary

Appointment

Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Title
Associate Justice
Appointed by
Gerald FordRepublican president
Seat
SCT0512
Nominated
Nov. 28, 1975
Committee hearing
Dec. 8, 1975
Committee action
Reported (favorably)Dec. 11, 1975
Senate vote
98โ€“0Roll Call
Confirmed
Dec. 17, 1975
Commissioned
Dec. 17, 1975
Senior status
June 30, 2010
Service ended
July 16, 2019Death

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.

Judicial service history

Every federal judicial office held, in order of appointment.

CourtTitleCommissionedEndedAppointed by
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Judge Oct. 14, 1970 Dec. 19, 1975 Appointment to Another Judicial Position Richard M. Nixon
Supreme Court of the United States Associate Justice Dec. 17, 1975 July 16, 2019 Death Gerald Ford

Recent judicial activity

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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 โ€” not that the judge has written nothing.