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Appointment

Court
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi
Title
Judge
Appointed by
Ronald ReaganRepublican president
Seat
MSSD0202
Nominated
March 15, 1983
Committee hearing
April 13, 1983
Committee action
Reported (favorably)April 19, 1983
Senate vote
Voice
Confirmed
April 21, 1983
Commissioned
April 25, 1983
ABA rating
Qualified
Chief Judge from
Jan. 1, 1989until Jan. 1, 1996
Senior status
Feb. 4, 2006
Service ended
Jan. 8, 2021Death

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.