Seventh Circuit
Walter Joseph Cummings
Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Appointment
- Court
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
- Title
- Judge
- Appointed by
- Lyndon B. JohnsonDemocratic
- Seat
- CA70901
- Nominated
- July 11, 1966
- Committee hearing
- July 27, 1966
- Committee action
- Reported (favorably)Aug. 10, 1966
- Senate vote
- Voice
- Confirmed
- Aug. 10, 1966
- Commissioned
- Aug. 11, 1966
- ABA rating
- Well Qualified
- Chief Judge from
- Jan. 1, 1981until Jan. 1, 1986
- Service ended
- April 24, 1999Death
Source Federal Judicial Center.
Recent judicial activity
Opinions authored and panels sat on, most recent first.
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Dec. 11, 1980panel identified Sat on the panel in Dreher v. Sielaff
Cases
Appellate cases on which this judge sat, drawn from panel information published with each decision.
| Case | No. | Status | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dreher v. Sielaff | Decided | Dec. 11, 1980 |
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.