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Appointment

Court
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee
Title
Judge
Appointed by
George H.W. BushRepublican president
Seat
TNWD0601
Nominated
Aug. 1, 1991
Committee hearing
Jan. 30, 1992
Committee action
Reported (favorably)Feb. 6, 1992
Senate vote
Voice
Confirmed
Feb. 6, 1992
Commissioned
Feb. 10, 1992
ABA rating
Well Qualified
Chief Judge from
Jan. 1, 2008until Jan. 1, 2013
Senior status
Aug. 23, 2013
Service ended
May 15, 2026Death

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

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.