David Sentelle
| David Sentelle | |
| Current Court Information: | |
| United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit | |
| Title: | Former Judge |
| Position: | Seat #2 |
| Station: | D.C. |
| Service: | |
| Appointed by: | Ronald Reagan |
| Active: | 9/11/1987 - 2/12/2013 |
| Chief: | 2008-2013 |
| Senior: | 2/12/2013 - Present |
| Preceded by: | Antonin Scalia |
| Past post: | Western District of North Carolina |
| Past term: | 1985-1987 |
| Personal History | |
| Born: | 1943 |
| Home State: | Canton, NC |
| Bachelors: | U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill '65 |
| Law School: | U. of North Carolina Law '68 |
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David Bryan Sentelle is a federal judge serving on senior status for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He joined the court in 1987 after being nominated by President Ronald Reagan. At the time of his appointment, Sentelle served as judge for the United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina. He joined that court in 1985 after an appointment from Ronald Reagan. He served as chief judge of the circuit court from 2008 until he assumed senior status on February 12, 2013.[1]
Early life and education
Born in Canton, North Carolina, Sentelle graduated from University of North Carolina with his Bachelor's degree in 1965 and later from University of North Carolina School of Law with his J.D. degree in 1968.[1]
Professional career
- 2013-Present: Senior Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
- 2008-2013: Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
- 2002-2009: Adjunct Professor, George Mason School of Law
- 1987-2008: Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
- 1993: Adjunct Professor, Florida State University
- 1991-1992: Visiting Professor, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill School of Law
- 1977-1985: Attorney, private practice in North Carolina
- 1977: Visiting Professor, University of North Carolina Charlotte
- 1974-1977: Judge, North Carolina General Courts of Justice
- 1970-1974: Assistant U.S. Attorney, Western District of North Carolina
- 1968-1970: Attorney, private practice in North Carolina [1]
Judicial career
Western District of North Carolina
On the recommendation of U.S. Senator Jesse Helms, Sentelle was nominated to the United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina by President Ronald Reagan on July 25, 1985 to a seat vacated by Woodrow Jones. Sentelle was confirmed by the Senate on October 16, 1985 and received commission on October 17, 1985.[1]
District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals
Sentelle was nominated to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit by President Ronald Reagan on February 2, 1987 to a seat vacated by Antonin Scalia, as Scalia was appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Sentelle was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on September 9, 1987 on a Senate vote and received commission on September 11, 1987.[2] Sentelle served as the Chief Judge of the D.C. Circuit from 2008 until 2013. On February 12, 2013, David Sentelle assumed senior status for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit after serving on the court for 25 years.[3]
Notable cases
The notable case section on this page needs to be reformatted.
Judge Sentelle voted to vacate the criminal convictions of Oliver North and John Poindexter in the Iran-Contra scandal. He chose Kenneth Starr, a Republican, to be President Bill Clinton's special prosecutor on Whitewater. He joined the unanimous opinion written by Judge Stephen F. Williams overturning the decision of the National Labor Relations Board in Ampersand v. NLRB.[4][5]
See also
External links
- Judge David Sentelle Federal Judicial Center Biography
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Judge David Sentelle Federal Judicial Center Biography
- ↑ "THOMAS" Judge David Sentelle USCA, DC Cir. confirmation:PN98-100
- ↑ U.S. Courts Current Vacancies
- ↑ Boardman, William "Court: Evidence Doesn't Matter" Reader Supported News, 28 December 2012. Retrieved on 30 December 2012.
- ↑ http://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opinions.nsf/E9275A440CE6C94685257AD800537ECC/$file/11-1284-1410688.pdf
| Federal judicial offices | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by: Woodrow Jones |
Western District of North Carolina 1985–1987 Seat #2 |
Succeeded by: Richard Voorhees |
| Preceded by: Antonin Scalia |
Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit 1987–2013 |
Succeeded by: NA |
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| 1981 |
Bartlett • Beam • Becker • Bork • Cacheris • Cardamone • Chapman • Coughenour • Cox • Crow • Cyr • Doumar • Eschbach • Forrester • Garwood • Gibson • Glasser • Hall • Hamilton • Head • Jones • Kiser • Krenzler • Lee • Magnuson • McLaughlin • Miner • Moore • Nowlin • O'Connor • Pierce • Posner • Potter • Russell • Ryan • Shabaz • Sprizzo • Stevens • Waters • Wilhoit • Wilkins • Winter | ||
| 1982 |
Acker • Acosta • Altimari • Bell • Bissell • Black • Bullock • Caldwell • Coffey • Contie • Coyle • Dowd • Fagg • Fong • Fox • Gadbois • Gibson • Ginsburg • Hart • Higginbotham • Hogan • Irving • Jackson • Jolly • Kanne • Kovachevich • Krupansky • Lynch • Mansmann • McNamara • Mencer • Mentz • Mihm • Moody • Nordberg • Paul • Pieras • Plunkett • Porfilio • Potter • Pratt • Rafeedie • Restani • Roberts • Scalia • Selya • Telesca • Wellford | ||
| 1983 |
Baldock • Barbour • Barry • Bowman • Carman • Carter • Curran • Davis • Dorsey • Feldman • Fish • Flaum • Gibbons • Hallanan • Harris • Hinojosa • Hull • Hupp • Katz • Keenan • Kelly • Kram • Laffitte • Limbaugh, Sr. • Limbaugh, Sr. • Milburn • Nesbitt • Nevas • O'Neill • Rymer • Sharp • Starr • Vinson • Vukasin • Wexler • Woods | ||
| 1984 |
Barker • Beezer • Biggers • Billings • Bissell • Boyle • Brewster • Browning • DiCarlo • Duhe • Garcia • George • Hall • Hargrove • Higgins • Hill • Holland • Ideman • Jarvis • Keller • Leavy • Lee • Legge • Leisure • Little • Livaudais • Longobardi • McKibben • Milburn • Newman • Norgle • Prado • Rea • Rosenblatt • Rovner • Scirica • Smith, Jr. • Sneeden • Stotler • Suhrheinrich • Torruella • Wiggins • Wilkinson | ||
| 1985 |
Alley • Altimari • Anderson • Aquilino • Archer • Arnold • Baldock • Batchelder • Battey • Broomfield • Brown • Brown • Brunetti • Buckley • Cobb • Conmy • Cowen • Davidson • Dimmick • Duff • Easterbrook • Edgar • Farnan • Fernandez • Fitzpatrick • Fuste • Greene • Gunn • Guy • Hall • Hilton • Holderman • Hughes • Johnson • Jones • Korman • Kozinski • La Plata • Leinenweber • Letts • Lovell • Ludwig • Maloney • Mansmann • Marcus • McDonald • Meredith • Miller • Mills • Miner • Motz • Nelson • Noonan • Porfilio • Revercomb • Rhoades • Ripple • Rodriguez • Rosenbaum • Roth • Ryan • Sam • Scott • Sentelle • Silberman • Sporkin • Stanton • Stapleton • Strand • Strom • Tacha • Tevrizian • Thompson • Todd • Tsoucalas • Walker • Walter • Weber • Williams • Wilson • Wingate • Wolf • Wollman • Young • Zloch | ||
| 1986 |
Anderson • Boggs • Bryan • Cedarbaum • Cholakis • Conway • Davies • Dearie • Dubina • Duggan • Edmondson • Fawsett • Fitzwater • Gex • Graham • Hackett • Hansen • Henderson • Hittner • Howard • Jensen • Kay • Kleinfeld • Kosik • Lagueux • Lechner • Magill • Mahoney • Manion • McAvoy • McQuade • Norris • O'Scannlain • Rehnquist • Ryskamp • Scalia • Selya • Simpson • Smalkin • Spencer • Stiehl • Wilkins • Williams • Woodlock • Zatkoff | ||
| 1987 |
Alesia • Beam • Bell • Conboy • Cowen • Cummings • Daronco • Doty • Dwyer • Ebel • Ellis • Gadola • Gawthrop • Greenberg • Harrington • Howard • Hoyt • Hutchinson • Kanne • Kelly • Larimer • Leavy • Lew • Marsh • Mayer • McKinney • Michel • Mukasey • Musgrave • Niemeyer • Parker • Phillips • Politan • Pro • Raggi • Reasoner • Reed • Scirica • Sentelle • Smith • Smith • Stadtmueller • Standish • Tinder • Torres • Trott • Turner • Van Antwerpen • Voorhees • Webb • Whipple • Wolin • Wolle • Wood • Zagel | ||
| 1988 |
Arcara • Babcock • Brorby • Butler • Cambridge • Camp • Conlon • Cox • Dubois • Duhe • Ezra • Forester • Friedman • Garza • Hutton • Jordan • Kennedy • Lake • Lamberth • Lifland • Lozano • Marovich • Nygaard • Patterson • Schell • Smith • Smith • Tilley • Waldman • Zilly | ||
