Benchlight The federal appellate judiciary

Eighth Circuit

Lavenski R. Smith

Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

Active Born 1958, Hope, AR

Appointment

Court
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Title
Judge
Appointed by
George W. BushRepublican president
Seat
CA81202
Nominated
Sept. 4, 2001
Committee hearing
May 23, 2002
Committee action
Reported (favorably)June 27, 2002
Senate vote
Voice
Confirmed
July 15, 2002
Commissioned
July 19, 2002
ABA rating
Qualified
Chief Judge from
Jan. 1, 2017until Jan. 1, 2024

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.

No panel assignments recorded in the ingested window.

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.