Charles Weston Houck
| Charles Weston Houck | |
| Current Court Information: | |
| United States District Court for the District of South Carolina | |
| Title: | Senior Judge |
| Position: | Seat #7 |
| Service: | |
| Appointed by: | Jimmy Carter |
| Active: | 9/26/1979 - 09/30/2003 |
| Chief: | 1993 - 2000 |
| Senior: | 10/1/2003 - Present |
| Preceded by: | 92 Stat. 1629 |
| Succeeded by: | Robert Harwell |
| Personal History | |
| Born: | 1933 |
| Home State: | Florence, SC |
| Law School: | U. of South Carolina Law, LL.B., 1956 |
| Military service: | U.S. Army 1957 - 1958 |
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Charles Weston Houck (1933-present) is a federal judge on the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina.[1]
Houck was nominated by President Jimmy Carter on June 5, 1979, to a new seat created by 92 Stat. 1629; he was confirmed by the Senate on September 25, 1979, and received commission the next day. He served as chief judge from 1993-2000. He assumed senior status on October 1, 2003.[1] Houck was succeeded in this position by Robert Harwell.
Early life and education
- University of South Carolina Law Center, LL.B., 1956[1]
Professional career
- U.S. Army, 1957-1958
- Private practice, Florence, South Carolina, 1956, 1958-1979
- South Carolina state representative, 1963-1966
- Chairman, Florence City-County Building Commission, South Carolina, 1968-1976[1]
Judicial career
District of South Carolina
Houck was nominated by President Jimmy Carter on June 5, 1979, to a new seat created by 92 Stat. 1629; he was confirmed by the Senate on September 25, 1979, and received commission the next day. He served as chief judge from 1993-2000. He assumed senior status on October 1, 2003.[1] Houck was succeeded in this position by Robert Harwell.
Notable cases
Port shipping case
| United States District Court for the District of South Carolina *South Carolina Coastal Conservation League, v. Unites States Army Corps of Engineers, Charleston District, et al. 2:07-3802-PMD |
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| Judge Houck presided in a lawsuit between the Coastal Conservation League and the Port Authority of South Carolina. The judge dismissed a case filed by environmental groups trying to block construction of a new shipping port on the site of a former Navy base of North Charleston. The judge found that evidence used by the league in their complaint against the Port Authority was not sufficient beyond a reasonable doubt to move the trial forward.[2] |
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| Federal judicial offices | ||
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| Preceded by: NA-New Seat |
District of South Carolina 1979–2003 Seat #7 |
Succeeded by: Robert Harwell |
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| 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 | |||
