Alex Howard
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| Alex Howard | |
| Current Court Information: | |
| United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama | |
| Title: | Former Judge |
| Service: | |
| Appointed by: | Ronald Reagan |
| Active: | 10/14/1986 - 10/21/1996 |
| Chief: | 1989 - 1994 |
| Senior: | 10/21/1996 - 2/10/2011 |
| Succeeded by: | Callie Granade |
| Personal History | |
| Born: | July 9, 1924 |
| Home State: | Mobile, AL |
| Deceased: | February 10, 2011 |
| Law School: | Vanderbilt University Law School, LL.B., 1950 |
Alex T. Howard, Jr. (1924-2011) was a federal judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama.
Howard was nominated by President Reagan on September 23, 1986, to a seat created by 98 Stat. 333. He was confirmed by the Senate on October 8, and received commission on October 14, 1986. From 1989 to 1994, he was the chief judge and on October 21, 1996, he assumed senior status. He died on February 10, 2011.
Education
- Vanderbilt University Law School, LL.B., 1950
Professional career
- U.S. Army, 1943-1946
- U.S. Probation Officer, 1950-1951
- Private practice, Mobile, Alabama, 1951-1986
- U.S. Commissioner, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama, 1956-1970
External links
- Biography from the Federal Judicial Center.
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| Active judges |
Chief Judge: William Steele • Callie Granade • Kristi DuBose | ||
| Senior judges | |||
| Magistrate judges | William Cassady • Bert Milling • Katherine Nelson • Sonja Bivins • | ||
| Former Article III judges |
William Crawford • Charles Tait • John Gayle • William Giles Jones • Richard Busteed • George Washington Lane • John Bruce • Emmett Cox • Harry Theophilus Toulmin • Robert Tait Ervin • John McDuffie • Thomas Pittman • William Hand • Daniel Thomas • Richard Vollmer, Jr. • Richard Vollmer • Alex Howard • | ||
| Former Chief judges |
Callie Granade • Charles Butler • Thomas Pittman • William Hand • Daniel Thomas • Alex Howard • | ||
