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Appointment

Court
U.S. District Court for the District of Montana
Title
Judge
Appointed by
George W. BushRepublican president
Seat
MTD0205
Nominated
May 17, 2001
Committee hearing
July 11, 2001
Committee action
Reported (favorably)July 19, 2001
Senate vote
93โ€“0Roll Call
Confirmed
July 20, 2001
Commissioned
July 25, 2001
ABA rating
Well Qualified
Chief Judge from
Jan. 1, 2008until Jan. 1, 2013
Senior status
March 18, 2013
Service ended
May 3, 2013Retirement

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.