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Appointment

Court
U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska
Title
Judge
Appointed by
George W. BushRepublican president
Seat
AKD0104
Nominated
Nov. 8, 2001
Committee hearing
Feb. 26, 2002
Committee action
Reported (favorably)March 7, 2002
Senate vote
98โ€“0Roll Call
Confirmed
March 12, 2002
Commissioned
March 19, 2002
ABA rating
Qualified
Chief Judge from
Jan. 1, 2009until Jan. 1, 2015
Senior status
Dec. 31, 2015

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.