Benchlight The federal appellate judiciary

Appointment

Court
U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois
Title
Judge
Appointed by
Ronald ReaganRepublican president
Seat
ILCD0202
Nominated
June 25, 1985
Committee hearing
July 17, 1985
Committee action
Reported (favorably)July 18, 1985
Senate vote
Voice
Confirmed
July 19, 1985
Commissioned
July 22, 1985
ABA rating
Well Qualified
Senior status
Oct. 7, 1997
Service ended
July 16, 2023Death

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 — not that the judge has written nothing.