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Appointment

Court
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia
Title
Judge
Appointed by
Barack ObamaDemocratic president
Seat
VAWD0603
Nominated
Jan. 5, 2011
Committee hearing
Feb. 16, 2011
Committee action
Reported (favorably)March 10, 2011
Senate vote
94โ€“0Roll Call
Confirmed
May 12, 2011
Commissioned
May 13, 2011
ABA rating
Well Qualified
Chief Judge from
Jan. 1, 2017until Jan. 1, 2024
Senior status
July 4, 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.

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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.