Benchlight The federal appellate judiciary

Appointment

Court
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Title
Judge
Appointed by
Donald J. TrumpRepublican president
Seat
CA70109
Nominated
Sept. 15, 2025
Committee hearing
Sept. 17, 2025
Committee action
Reported (favorably)Oct. 9, 2025
Senate vote
52–46Roll Call
Confirmed
Oct. 27, 2025
Commissioned
Nov. 3, 2025
ABA rating
Well Qualified

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.

Nominations

Senate nominations naming this judge — their own appointment, or a nomination to the seat they are leaving.

NomineeCourtReceivedOutcomeVote
This judge PN520-5 Seventh Circuit Sept. 15, 2025 Confirmed 52–46

Source Congress.gov. A nomination appears here when the name matches this judge exactly; the Federal Judicial Center record above remains the authority for service actually served.

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.

No panel assignments recorded in the ingested window.

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.