Betty Binns Fletcher

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1 Early Life and Education
2 Legal Career
3 Federal Judicial Career
4 References

Betty Binns Fletcher is a Federal judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco. She joined the court in 1979 after being nominated by President Jimmy Carter. She is serving on senior status, but has not reduced her caseload. ^[1]

Early Life and Education

Fletcher graduated from Stanford University with her Bachelor's degree in 1943 and later from University of Washington School of Law with her Juris Doctor degree in 1956.^[2]

Legal Career

Fletcher was a private practice attorney in the State of Washington from 1956 to 1979.^[2]

Federal Judicial Career

Fletcher was nominated to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit by President Jimmy Carter on July 12, 1979 to a new seat created by 92 Stat. 1629, which was approved by Congress. Fletcher was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on September 26, 1979 and received commission on September 26, 1979.^[2]

References

	v • d • e Federal judges who have served the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Active judges	Chief Judge: Kozinski • Bea • Berzon • Bybee • Callahan • Clifton • Fisher • Fletcher • Gould • Graber • Hawkins • Ikuta • Kleinfeld • McKeown • O`Scannlain • Paez • Pregerson • Rawlinson • Reinhardt • Rymer • Schroeder • Silverman • M. Smith • R. Smith • Tallman • Thomas • Wardlaw • Vacancy • Vacancy • Vacancy
Senior judges	Alarcon • Beezer • Boochever • Browning • Canby • Farris • Fernandez • Fletcher • Goodwin • Hall • Hug • Leavy • D. Nelson • T. Nelson • Noonan • Skopil • Tashima • Thompson • Trott • Wallace
Former judges	Anderson • Barnes • Bone • Brunetti • Carter • Chambers • Choy • Denman • Dietrich • Duniway • Ely • Fee • Ferguson • Garrecht • Gilbert • Hamley • Hamlin • Haney • Healy • Hufstedler • Hunt • Jertberg • Kennedy • Kilkenny • Koelsch • Lemmon • Mathews • McCamant • McKenna • Merrill • Morrow • Norris • Orr • Poole • Pope • Ross • Rudkin • Sawtelle • Sawyer • Sneed • Stephens • Tang • Trask • Wiggins • Wilbur • Wright

	v • d • e Federal judges nominated by Jimmy Carter
1977	Ballantine • Bownes • Boyle • Bua • Carr • Clark • Cowan • Daly • Filippine • Higginbotham • Hoeveler • Hug • Johnstone • Kane • Keith • Leval • Logan • MacLaughlin • McKay • Melton • Merritt • Murphy • Nickerson • Oberdorfer • Roszkowski • Roy • Rubin • Sifton • Tang • Vance • Veron
1978	Arnold • Baker • Boyle • Burns • Campos • Claiborne • Collins • Cook • Devine • Diamond • Duplantier • Edenfield • Friedman • Gonzalez • Greene • Jenkins • Lowe • Mazzone • McMillian • O'Brien • Pfaelzer • Phillips • Pollak • Sand • Shapiro • Simmons • Smith • Sweet • Tanner • Wiseman • Ziegler
1979	Ackerman • Alarcon • Anderson • Arceneaux • Arnold • Aspen • Beatty • Beer • Belew • Bertelsman • Bilby • N. Black • S. Black • Bloch • Bowen • Brett • Brooks • Brown • Buchmeyer • Bunton • Burciaga • Cabranes • Carr • Carrigan • Castagna • Cire • Clark • Cohn • Conaboy • Cordova • Crabb • Cudahy • Davis • DeAnda • Debevoise • Edwards • Eginton • Ellison • Enslen • O. Evans • T. Evans • Farris • Ferguson • Fletcher • Frye • Garcia • Garza • B. Gibson • H. Gibson • Gierbolini-Ortiz • Giles • Gilliam • Green • Hall • Hastings • Hatchett • Hatfield • Hatter • Hawkins • Henderson • Higby • Hillman • Houck • Howard • Hudspeth • Hungate • F. Johnson • S. Johnson • N. Jones • S. Jones • Karlton • Kazen • Kearse • Keeton • Kehoe • Kennedy • Kidd • King • Kravitch • Loughlin • Martin • McCurn • McDonald • McNaught • McNichols • Mikva • Mitchell • Moran • Murnaghan • Murphy • D. Nelson • D.W. Nelson • Newblatt • Newman • Overton • Paine • Panner • J. Parker • R. Parker • Penn • Perez-Gimenez • Perry • Politz • Poole • Porter • Pregerson • Price • Rambo • Ramirez • Reavley • Redden • E. Reed • S. Reed • Reinhardt • Renner • Robinson • Rothstein • Sachs • Saffels • Sanders • Sarokin • Schroeder • Schwartz • Seay • Senter • Seymour • Shannon • Shaw • Shoob • Skopil • Sloviter • Sofaer • Spellman • Sprouse • Staker • Tate • Taylor • Thompson • Tidwell • Unthank • Vietor • Vining • Wald • Ward • Weinshienk • West • Wicker • Williams • Winder • Woods • Wright • Zobel
1980	Aguilar • Aldrich • Anderson • Boochever • Breyer • Britt • Cahill • Canby • Carroll • Cerezo • Clemon • S. Ervin • R. Erwin • Getzendanner • Gilmore • Ginsburg • Haltom • Hardy • Henderson • Hobbs • Holschuh • Horton • Howard • Johnson • Keep • Kelly • Kenyon • Kocoras • Marquez • Marshall • Michael • Nixon • Norris • Patel • Polozola • Propst • Quackenbush • Ramsey • Rice • Shadur • Spiegel • Tashima • Thompson • Vela • White • Williams
1981	Heen