Randall Ray Rader

Court

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Title

Judge

Appointed by

George H.W. BushRepublican

Seat

CAFC1202

Nominated

June 12, 1990

Committee hearing

July 16, 1990

Committee action

Reported (favorably)July 26, 1990

Senate vote

Voice

Confirmed

Aug. 3, 1990

Commissioned

Aug. 9, 1990

ABA rating

Qualified

Chief Judge from

Jan. 1, 2010until Jan. 1, 2014

Service ended

June 30, 2014Retirement

Source Federal Judicial Center.

Opinions authored and panels sat on, most recent first.

• April 10, 2003
  opinion issued Authored the opinion in Rigsbee v. United States
• Dec. 12, 2002
  opinion issued Authored the opinion in P.W. Construction, Inc. v. United States
• April 18, 2000
  opinion issued Authored the opinion in Karuk Tribe of California v. Carol McConnell Ammon, Leslie Ammon, Elsie McCovey Bacon, Julia Lauretta Bartow, Ollie Roberts Foseide, Bonita Bacon Green, Janice M. Green, Dorothy Williams Haberman, Richard L. Haberman, Evelina Hoffman, Mary Gist Jackson, Martin Kinder, Sr., Rachel L. Knight, Ernest Lewis, Jr., Annie Mitchell Love, Ardith McConnell Michael McConnell Robert B. McConnell Walter C. McKinnon Thelma W. McLaughlin Steven J. Metcalfe, Edward E. Mitchell, Veta Gillespie Mitchell, Gertrude v. Mollier, Edward Moore David E. O'neill, Herbert L. O'neill, Barbara E. Orcutt, Lawrence E. Orcutt, David Eric Severns, Maria E. Tripp, and Kathryn Ichelson Wild,plaintiffs-Appellants, and Yurok Indian Tribe v. United States, and Hoopa Valley Tribe
• Dec. 21, 1992
  panel identified Sat on the panel in Roland Spruill v. Merit Systems Protection Board

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

Opinions, concurrences and dissents attributed to this judge by the source record.