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Appointment

Court
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Title
Judge
Appointed by
None (reassignment)None (reassignment) president
Seat
CAFC0801
Commissioned
Oct. 1, 1982
Service ended
Jan. 7, 1986Retirement

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.

Judicial service history

Every federal judicial office held, in order of appointment.

CourtTitleCommissionedEndedAppointed by
Court of Claims Judge Jan. 3, 1972 Oct. 1, 1982 Reassignment Richard M. Nixon
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Judge Oct. 1, 1982 Jan. 7, 1986 Retirement None (reassignment)

Recent judicial activity

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  • No recorded activity.

Cases

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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.