Benchlight The federal appellate judiciary

Appointment

Court
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California
Title
Judge
Appointed by
George W. BushRepublican president
Seat
CAED0303
Nominated
March 21, 2002
Committee hearing
June 13, 2002
Committee action
Reported (favorably)June 20, 2002
Senate vote
Voice
Confirmed
Aug. 1, 2002
Commissioned
Aug. 2, 2002
ABA rating
Well Qualified
Chief Judge from
Jan. 1, 2012until Jan. 1, 2016
Senior status
Dec. 17, 2019
Service ended
Oct. 4, 2024Retirement

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.