Benchlight The federal appellate judiciary

Appointment

Court
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
Title
Judge
Appointed by
George H.W. BushRepublican president
Seat
CAND1402
Nominated
Sept. 7, 1989
Committee hearing
Nov. 9, 1989
Committee action
Reported (favorably)Nov. 16, 1989
Senate vote
Voice
Confirmed
Nov. 22, 1989
Commissioned
Nov. 27, 1989
ABA rating
Qualified
Chief Judge from
Jan. 1, 2004until Jan. 1, 2010
Service ended
Feb. 28, 2011Retirement

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 — not that the judge has written nothing.