Benchlight The federal appellate judiciary

Appointment

Court
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California
Title
Judge
Appointed by
Ronald ReaganRepublican president
Seat
CAED0102
Nominated
March 11, 1982
Committee hearing
March 24, 1982
Committee action
Reported (favorably)March 30, 1982
Senate vote
Voice
Confirmed
March 31, 1982
Commissioned
April 1, 1982
ABA rating
Well Qualified
Chief Judge from
Jan. 1, 1990until Jan. 1, 1996
Senior status
May 13, 1996
Service ended
May 7, 2012Death

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.