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Appointment

Court
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri
Title
Judge
Appointed by
Ronald ReaganRepublican president
Seat
MOWD0306
Nominated
June 7, 1983
Committee hearing
June 22, 1983
Committee action
Reported (favorably)July 14, 1983
Senate vote
Voice
Confirmed
July 18, 1983
Commissioned
July 19, 1983
Senior status
May 1, 1996
Service ended
July 31, 2008Retirement

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
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri Judge July 19, 1983 July 31, 2008 Retirement Ronald Reagan
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri Judge July 19, 1983 July 31, 2008 Retirement Ronald Reagan

Recent judicial activity

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Cases

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Judicial writings

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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.