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Supreme Court

Warren Earl Burger

Chief Justice of the United States

Former Born Sept. 17, 1907, St. Paul, MN Died June 25, 1995 1 panel seat recorded

Appointment

Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Title
Chief Justice of the United States
Appointed by
Richard M. NixonRepublican
Seat
SCT0115
Nominated
May 23, 1969
Committee hearing
June 3, 1969
Committee action
Reported (favorably)June 3, 1969
Senate vote
74–3Roll Call
Confirmed
June 9, 1969
Commissioned
June 23, 1969
Senior status
Sept. 26, 1986
Service ended
June 25, 1995Death

Source Federal Judicial Center.

Judicial service history

Every federal judicial office held, in order of appointment.

CourtTitleCommissionedEndedAppointed by
U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Judge March 29, 1956 June 23, 1969 Appointment to Another Judicial Position Dwight D. Eisenhower
Supreme Court of the United States Chief Justice of the United States June 23, 1969 June 25, 1995 Death Richard M. Nixon

Recent judicial activity

Opinions authored and panels sat on, most recent first.

Cases

Appellate cases on which this judge sat, drawn from panel information published with each decision.

CaseNo.StatusDate
Boyd Leedom, as Chairman and Members of National Labor Relations Board v. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local Union No. 108, Afl-Cio, General Cable Corporation v. Boyd Stewart Leedom, Individually and as Chairman and Members of and Constituting National Labor Relations Board Decided March 24, 1960

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.