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Indiana is a state in the United States. The law Courts of Indiana include: State courts of Indiana The E. Ross Adair Federal Building, seat of the Fort Wayne division of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana. Indiana Supreme Court [1] Indiana Court of Appeals (5 districts; previously Indiana Appellate Court) [2] Indiana ...
Senior Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit; In office January 23, 1997 – July 14, 2011: Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit; In office October 26, 1981 – January 23, 1997: Appointed by: Ronald Reagan: Preceded by: Seat established by 92 Stat. 1629: Succeeded by: Priscilla Richman
James Chiun-Yue Ho (born February 27, 1973) is an American lawyer and jurist serving since 2018 as a U.S. circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He was appointed by President Donald Trump, becoming the Fifth Circuit's only Asian-American judge and the only judge to be an immigrant. [1]
Dana Marie Douglas (born 1975) [1] is an American attorney who is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. She previously served as a United States magistrate judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana from 2019 to 2022.
Obama renominated Graves in January 2011, and the Senate confirmed him on February 14, 2011, making him the third African-American judge on the Fifth Circuit, after Carl E. Stewart and Joseph W. Hatchett. [1] He received his commission on February 15, 2011. [2]
Fortunato Pedro Benavides (February 3, 1947 – May 5, 2023) was an American judge. From 1994 until 2023, he served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Starting in the late 1950s, judges Elbert Parr Tuttle (chief judge 1960–67), John Minor Wisdom, John R. Brown (chief judge 1967–79), and Richard T. Rives (chief judge 1959–60) became known as the "Fifth Circuit Four", or simply "The Four", for decisions crucial in advancing the civil rights of African Americans.
He was in private practice in Rensselaer, Indiana from 1968 to 1972, working as a city attorney for the City of Rensselaer in 1972. [4] He was a judge on the 30th Judicial Circuit of Indiana [5] from 1972 to 1982, and was a lecturer at St. Joseph's College from 1976 to 1989, and at St. Francis College in Fort Wayne, Indiana, from 1990 to 1991. [6]