Benchlight The federal appellate judiciary

Appointment

Court
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida
Title
Judge
Appointed by
William J. ClintonDemocratic
Seat
FLSD0804
Nominated
May 9, 2000
Committee hearing
June 15, 2000
Committee action
Reported (favorably)June 27, 2000
Senate vote
Voice
Confirmed
June 30, 2000
Commissioned
July 11, 2000
ABA rating
Well Qualified
Senior status
Aug. 31, 2010

Source Federal Judicial Center.

Recent judicial activity

Opinions authored and panels sat on, most recent first.

Cases

Appellate cases on which this judge sat, drawn from panel information published with each decision.

CaseNo.StatusDate
United States v. Kevan Carter Gibbs, II 24-12448 Decided Sept. 17, 2026
African People's Education and Defense Fund, Inc. v. Pinellas County 24-13547 Decided July 29, 2026
Jonatan Cortes-Maldonado v. William Barr 18-70927 Decided Oct. 15, 2020
United States v. Allandoe C. Boyd 18-11063 Decided Sept. 16, 2020
Willie Hill v. Employee Benefits Administrative Committee of Mueller Group LLC 18-14026 Decided Aug. 24, 2020

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.