Benchlight The federal appellate judiciary

Appointment

Court
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Title
Judge
Appointed by
George W. BushRepublican president
Seat
CA90108
Nominated
Feb. 8, 2006
Committee hearing
May 2, 2006
Committee action
Reported (favorably)May 25, 2006
Senate vote
81–0Roll Call
Confirmed
June 19, 2006
Commissioned
June 23, 2006
ABA rating
Well Qualified
Senior status
Nov. 7, 2025
Service ended
Dec. 7, 2025Death

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.

Nominations

Senate nominations naming this judge — their own appointment, or a nomination to the seat they are leaving.

NomineeCourtReceivedOutcomeVote
Eric Chunyee Tung PN400-3 Ninth Circuit July 15, 2025 Confirmed 52–45

Source Congress.gov. A nomination appears here when the name matches this judge exactly; the Federal Judicial Center record above remains the authority for service actually served.

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.