Benchlight The federal appellate judiciary

Appointment

Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Title
Associate Justice
Appointed by
Lyndon B. JohnsonDemocratic president
Seat
SCT1107
Nominated
June 13, 1967
Committee hearing
July 13, 1967
Committee action
Reported (favorably)Aug. 21, 1967
Senate vote
69โ€“11Roll Call
Confirmed
Aug. 30, 1967
Commissioned
Aug. 30, 1967
Senior status
Oct. 1, 1991
Service ended
Jan. 24, 1993Death

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. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Judge Sept. 14, 1962 Aug. 23, 1965 Resignation John F. Kennedy
Supreme Court of the United States Associate Justice Aug. 30, 1967 Jan. 24, 1993 Death Lyndon B. Johnson

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.

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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 โ€” not that the judge has written nothing.