Benchlight The federal appellate judiciary

Appointment

Court
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California
Title
Judge
Appointed by
Jimmy CarterDemocratic president
Seat
CAED0302
Nominated
June 5, 1979
Committee hearing
July 9, 1979
Committee action
Reported (favorably)July 17, 1979
Senate vote
Voice
Confirmed
July 23, 1979
Commissioned
July 24, 1979
ABA rating
Qualified
Chief Judge from
Jan. 1, 1983until Jan. 1, 1990
Senior status
May 28, 2000
Service ended
July 11, 2015Death

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.

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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.