George Woods
| George Woods | |
| Current Court Information: | |
| United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan | |
| Title: | Former Judge |
| Position: | Seat #4 |
| Service: | |
| Appointed by: | Ronald Reagan |
| Active: | 11/16/1983 - 11/16/1993 |
| Senior: | 11/16/1993 - 8/13/2004 |
| Preceded by: | Patricia Boyle |
| Succeeded by: | Denise Hood |
| Personal History | |
| Born: | 1923 |
| Deceased: | 2007 |
| Law School: | Detroit College of Law (1949) |
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George E. Woods (1923-2007) was a federal judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.
Woods was nominated by President Ronald Reagan on November 1, 1983, to a seat vacated by Patricia Boyle; he was confirmed by the Senate on November 15, 1983, and received commission the next day. He assumed senior status on November 16, 1993, and served in that capacity until his death on August 13, 2004. [1] Woods was succeeded in this position by Denise Hood.
Early life and education
Professional career
- U.S. Army, 1943-1946
- Private practice, Pontiac, Michigan, 1949-1951
- Assistant prosecuting attorney, Oakland County, Michigan, 1951-1952
- Private practice, Pontiac, Michigan, 1953
- Chief assistant U.S. attorney, Eastern District of Michigan, 1953-1960
- U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, 1960-1961
- Private practice, Detroit, Michigan, 1961-1981
- Chief special prosecutor, Wayne County Grand Jury, 1965-1966
- U.S. Bankruptcy Judge, Eastern District of Michigan, 1981-1983[1]
Judicial career
Eastern District of Michigan
Woods was nominated by President Ronald Reagan on November 1, 1983, to a seat vacated by Patricia Boyle; he was confirmed by the Senate on November 15, 1983, and received commission the next day. He assumed senior status on November 16, 1993, and served in that capacity until his death on August 13, 2004. [1] Woods was succeeded in this position by Denise Hood.
External links
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 George Woods's Biography from the Federal Judicial Center.
| Federal judicial offices | ||
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| Preceded by: Patricia Boyle |
Eastern District of Michigan 1983–1993 Seat #4 |
Succeeded by: Denise Hood |
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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 | ||
