Benchlight The federal appellate judiciary

Appointment

Court
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
Title
Associate Justice
Appointed by
Franklin D. RooseveltDemocratic president
Seat
DCD0407
Nominated
July 14, 1941
Committee hearing
July 24, 1941
Committee action
Reported (favorably)July 28, 1941
Senate vote
Voice
Confirmed
July 29, 1941
Commissioned
Aug. 1, 1941
Chief Judge from
Jan. 1, 1961until Jan. 1, 1966
Senior status
Oct. 7, 1966
Service ended
Jan. 24, 1986Death

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.