Benchlight The federal appellate judiciary

Appointment

Court
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas
Title
Judge
Appointed by
George H.W. BushRepublican president
Seat
ARED0303
Nominated
Sept. 21, 1989
Committee hearing
Nov. 7, 1989
Committee action
Reported (favorably)Nov. 16, 1989
Senate vote
Voice
Confirmed
Jan. 23, 1990
Commissioned
Jan. 24, 1990
ABA rating
Qualified
Chief Judge from
Jan. 1, 1998until Jan. 1, 2005
Senior status
Aug. 22, 2013

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 Western District of Arkansas Judge Jan. 24, 1990 Dec. 1, 1990 Reassignment George H.W. Bush
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas Judge Jan. 24, 1990 In service George H.W. Bush

Recent judicial activity

Opinions authored and panels sat on, most recent first.

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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 — not that the judge has written nothing.