Eleventh Circuit
Robert Smith Vance
Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Appointment
- Court
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
- Title
- Judge
- Appointed by
- None (reassignment)None (reassignment)
- Seat
- CA110601
- Commissioned
- Oct. 1, 1981
- Service ended
- Dec. 16, 1989Death
Source Federal Judicial Center.
Judicial service history
Every federal judicial office held, in order of appointment.
| Court | Title | Commissioned | Ended | Appointed by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit | Judge | Dec. 15, 1977 | Oct. 1, 1981 Reassignment | Jimmy Carter |
| U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit | Judge | Oct. 1, 1981 | Dec. 16, 1989 Death | None (reassignment) |
Recent judicial activity
Opinions authored and panels sat on, most recent first.
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Oct. 6, 1987panel identified Sat on the panel in United States v. The State Of Alabama
Cases
Appellate cases on which this judge sat, drawn from panel information published with each decision.
| Case | No. | Status | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States v. The State Of Alabama | Decided | Oct. 6, 1987 |
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.