Benchlight The federal appellate judiciary

Appointment

Court
U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota
Title
Judge
Appointed by
Barack ObamaDemocratic president
Seat
SDD0305
Nominated
July 8, 2009
Committee hearing
Sept. 9, 2009
Committee action
Reported (favorably)Oct. 1, 2009
Senate vote
100โ€“0Roll Call
Confirmed
Oct. 21, 2009
Commissioned
Oct. 21, 2009
ABA rating
Well Qualified
Chief Judge from
Jan. 1, 2020

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.