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Appointment

Court
U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida
Title
Judge
Appointed by
George W. BushRepublican president
Seat
FLMD1501
Nominated
May 22, 2002
Committee hearing
July 23, 2002
Committee action
Reported (favorably)July 31, 2002
Senate vote
88โ€“0Roll Call
Confirmed
Sept. 12, 2002
Commissioned
Sept. 13, 2002
ABA rating
Well Qualified
Chief Judge from
Jan. 1, 2020until Jan. 1, 2024
Senior status
Nov. 2, 2024

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.

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.