William Cameron Canby Jr.

Appointment

Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Title: Judge
Appointed by: Jimmy CarterDemocratic
Seat: CA91402
Nominated: April 2, 1980
Committee hearing: April 25, 1980
Committee action: Reported (favorably)May 20, 1980
Senate vote: Voice
Confirmed: May 21, 1980
Commissioned: May 23, 1980
ABA rating: Well Qualified
Senior status: May 23, 1996

Source Federal Judicial Center.

Recent judicial activity

Opinions authored and panels sat on, most recent first.

July 11, 1985

panel identified Sat on the panel in American Protection Insurance Company v. Mgm Grand Hotel--Las Vegas, Inc., Mgm Grand Hotel--Las Vegas, Inc., a Nevada Corporation, Plaintiff/appellee/cross-Appellant/petitioner v. Insurance Company of North America, Defendant/appellant/cross- Appellee/respondent, and Cozen, Begier & O'connor, Appellant/appellee/respondent

Cases

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

Case	No.	Status	Date
American Protection Insurance Company v. Mgm Grand Hotel--Las Vegas, Inc., Mgm Grand Hotel--Las Vegas, Inc., a Nevada Corporation, Plaintiff/appellee/cross-Appellant/petitioner v. Insurance Company of North America, Defendant/appellant/cross- Appellee/respondent, and Cozen, Begier & O'connor, Appellant/appellee/respondent		Decided	July 11, 1985

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.

Education

B.A.: Yale University1953
LL.B.: University of Minnesota Law School1956

Professional career

U.S. Air Force lieutenant and judge advocate, 1956-1958
Law clerk, Hon. Charles E. Whittaker, Supreme Court of the United States, 1958-1959
Private practice, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1959-1962
U.S. Peace Corps, 1962-1966; associate director, Ethiopia, 1962-1963; deputy director, Ethiopia, 1963-1964, director, Uganda, 1964-1966
Special assistant, U.S. Sen. Walter F. Mondale of Minnesota, Washington, D.C., 1966
Special assistant, President Harris Wofford, State University of New York at Old Westbury, 1967
Professor of law, Arizona State University, 1967-1980
Director, Office of Indian Law, Arizona State University College of Law
Visiting Fulbright professor of law, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, 1970-1971

Source Federal Judicial Center biographical record.