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Appointment

Court
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Title
Judge
Appointed by
None (reassignment)None (reassignment) president
Seat
CA110501
Commissioned
Oct. 1, 1981
Senior status
Jan. 19, 1994
Service ended
Jan. 31, 2021Death

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 Southern District of Florida Judge Oct. 16, 1970 Oct. 8, 1976 Appointment to Another Judicial Position Richard M. Nixon
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Judge Sept. 21, 1976 Oct. 1, 1981 Reassignment Gerald Ford
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit Judge Oct. 1, 1981 Jan. 31, 2021 Death None (reassignment)

Recent judicial activity

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  • No recorded activity.

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.