Charles Evans Whittaker was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1957 to 1962. After working in private practice in Kansas City,Missouri,he was nominated for the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri. In 1956,President Dwight D. Eisenhower nominated Whittaker to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. In 1957,he won confirmation to the Supreme Court of the United States,thus becoming the first individual to serve as a judge on a federal district court,a federal court of appeals,and the United States Supreme Court. During his brief tenure on the Warren Court,Whittaker emerged as a swing vote. In 1962,he had a nervous breakdown and resigned from the Court. After leaving the Supreme Court,he served as chief counsel to General Motors and frequently criticized the Civil Rights Movement and the Warren Court.
In the United States,a federal judge is a judge who serves on a court established under Article Three of the U.S. Constitution. Such judges include the chief justice and associate justices of the U.S. Supreme Court,circuit judges of the U.S. Courts of Appeals,district judges of the U.S. District Courts,and judges of the U.S. Court of International Trade. These judges are often called "Article Three judges".
Kent Joseph Dawson is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nevada.
The United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri is the federal judicial district encompassing 66 counties in the western half of the State of Missouri. The Court is based in the Charles Evans Whittaker Courthouse in Kansas City.
The University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Law is the law school of the University of Missouri–Kansas City. It is located on the university's main campus in Kansas City,Missouri,near the Country Club Plaza.
Stanley Thomas Anderson is United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee.
Daniel Brook Bartlett was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri.
David Rasmussen Hansen is a Senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and a former United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa.
Richard Joseph Hopkins was a justice of the Kansas Supreme Court and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Kansas.
John Thomas Marten is a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Kansas.
Ortrie Dale Smith is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri.
Keith Starrett is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi.
Thomas Woodrow Thrash Jr. is a Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.
Harold Dean Whipple is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri.
Brian Curtis Wimes is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri and United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri. Despite his dual appointment,Wimes maintains chambers only in the Western District of Missouri.
Stephen Rogers Bough is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri.
Leslie Abrams Gardner is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia. Prior to being appointed to the bench,she was an assistant United States attorney.
Liles Clifton Burke is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama. His official duty station is the United States Courthouse at Huntsville,Alabama. He previously was an Associate Judge of the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals.
David Austin Tapp is a judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims and a former circuit court judge from Kentucky.
Charles Joseph Williams is the chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa. He was formerly a United States magistrate judge of the same court.
