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Appointment

Court
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri
Title
Judge
Appointed by
Jimmy CarterDemocratic president
Seat
MOWD0108
Nominated
June 13, 1977
Committee hearing
June 30, 1977
Committee action
Reported (favorably)June 30, 1977
Senate vote
Voice
Confirmed
July 1, 1977
Commissioned
July 5, 1977
ABA rating
Qualified
Chief Judge from
Jan. 1, 1980until Jan. 1, 1985
Senior status
Aug. 1, 1991
Service ended
July 31, 2000Retirement

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.

No panel assignments recorded in the ingested window.

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.