Benchlight The federal appellate judiciary

Appointment

Court
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Title
Judge
Appointed by
Dwight D. EisenhowerRepublican president
Seat
CA50305
Nominated
April 25, 1955
Committee hearing
May 25, 1955
Committee action
Reported (favorably)July 21, 1955
Senate vote
Voice
Confirmed
July 22, 1955
Commissioned
July 27, 1955
Chief Judge from
Jan. 1, 1967until Jan. 1, 1979
Senior status
July 20, 1984
Service ended
Jan. 23, 1993Death

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.

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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 — not that the judge has written nothing.