Benchlight The federal appellate judiciary

Appointment

Court
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Title
Judge
Appointed by
Jimmy CarterDemocratic
Seat
CA90205
Nominated
Feb. 27, 1980
Committee hearing
May 15, 1980
Committee action
Reported (favorably)June 17, 1980
Senate vote
Voice
Confirmed
June 18, 1980
Commissioned
June 18, 1980
ABA rating
Well Qualified
Senior status
July 7, 1994
Service ended
Oct. 24, 1997Retirement

Source Federal Judicial Center.

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
Alaska Center For The Environment v. Browner Decided March 30, 1994

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.