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Appointment

Court
U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
Title
Judge
Appointed by
William J. ClintonDemocratic president
Seat
CADC1202
Nominated
Jan. 7, 1997
Committee action
Reported (favorably)March 6, 1997
Senate vote
76โ€“23Roll Call
Confirmed
March 19, 1997
Commissioned
March 20, 1997
ABA rating
Well Qualified
Chief Judge from
Jan. 1, 2013until Jan. 1, 2020
Service ended
March 10, 2021Retirement

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 โ€” not that the judge has written nothing.