Benchlight The federal appellate judiciary

Appointment

Court
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
Title
Judge
Appointed by
None (reassignment)None (reassignment) president
Seat
CAND0201
Commissioned
Aug. 5, 1886
Service ended
Aug. 9, 1891Death

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.

Judicial service history

Every federal judicial office held, in order of appointment.

CourtTitleCommissionedEndedAppointed by
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California Judge Feb. 27, 1851 July 27, 1866 Reassignment Millard Fillmore
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California Judge Aug. 31, 1852 Jan. 18, 1854 Reassignment None (assignment)
U.S. District Court for the District of California Judge July 27, 1866 Aug. 5, 1886 Reassignment None (reassignment)
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California Judge Aug. 5, 1886 Aug. 9, 1891 Death None (reassignment)

Recent judicial activity

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Cases

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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.