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Appointment

Court
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida
Title
Judge
Appointed by
Gerald FordRepublican president
Seat
FLND0205
Nominated
April 18, 1975
Committee hearing
May 5, 1975
Committee action
Reported (favorably)May 8, 1975
Senate vote
Voice
Confirmed
May 12, 1975
Commissioned
May 14, 1975
ABA rating
Qualified
Chief Judge from
Jan. 1, 1981until Jan. 1, 1993
Senior status
May 31, 1996
Service ended
July 14, 2025Death

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.

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Cases

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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.