Henry Mentz
| Henry Mentz | |
| Current Court Information: | |
| United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana | |
| Title: | Former Judge |
| Position: | Seat #5 |
| Service: | |
| Appointed by: | Ronald Reagan |
| Active: | 6/25/1982 - 7/1/1992 |
| Senior: | 7/1/1992 - 12/31/2001 |
| Preceded by: | Lansing Mitchell |
| Succeeded by: | Sarah Vance |
| Personal History | |
| Born: | 1920 |
| Deceased: | 2005 |
| Undergraduate: | Tulane University (1941) |
| Law School: | Louisiana State University Law School (1943) |
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Henry Alvan Mentz, Jr. (1920-2005) was a federal judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana.
Mentz was nominated by President Ronald Reagan on June 2, 1982, to a seat vacated by Lansing Mitchell; he was confirmed by the Senate on June 24, 1982, and received commission on June 25, 1982. He assumed senior status on July 1, 1992. He served the Eastern District of Louisiana until his retirement in December 31, 2001.[1] Mentz was succeeded in this position by Sarah Vance.
Early life and education
- Tulane University, B.A., 1941
- Louisiana State University Law School, LL.B., 1943[1]
Professional career
- Private practice, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1943
- U.S. Army, 1943-1946
- Private practice, Hammond, Louisiana, 1946-1982
- Staff attorney, Shell Oil Company, 1947-1948
- Assistant to executive counsel to state governor, Louisiana, 1948
- City attorney, Hammond, Louisiana, 1954-1961[1]
Judicial career
Eastern District of Louisiana
Mentz was nominated by President Ronald Reagan on June 2, 1982, to a seat vacated by Lansing L. Mitchell; he was confirmed by the Senate on June 24, 1982, and received commission on June 25, 1982. He assumed senior status on July 1, 1992. He served the Eastern District of Louisiana until his retirement in December 31, 2001.[1] Mentz was succeeded in this position by Sarah Vance.
External links
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Judge Mentz's Biography from the Federal Judicial Center.
| Federal judicial offices | ||
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| Preceded by: Lansing Mitchell |
Eastern District of Louisiana 1982–1992 Seat #5 |
Succeeded by: Sarah Vance |
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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 | ||
