Leon McCord
Leon Clarence McCord (1878-1952) was a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
He was nominated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on June 9, 1938 to a seat created by 52 Stat. 584. He was confirmed by the Senate on June 15th, and received commission on June 24th. On February 26, 1951, he assumed senior status and continued to serve in this capacity until his death on February 11, 1952.[1]
Education
- Vanderbilt University
- Read law, 1900[1]
Professional career
- Private practice, Scottsboro, Alabama, 1900-1903
- Secretary, Supreme Court of Alabama, 1903-1909
- Private practice, Montgomery, Alabama, 1910-1916
- State railroad commissioner, Alabama, 1911-1915
- Judge, Circuit Court, 15th Judicial Circuit of Alabama, 1916-1935
- Presiding judge, 1919-1935
- Democratic candidate for State Governor, Alabama, 1934
- Private practice, Montgomery, Alabama, 1935-1938[1]
External links
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Judge McCord's Biography from the Federal Judicial Center.
| Federal judicial offices | ||
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| Preceded by: NA - new seat |
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals 1938–1952 |
Succeeded by: Richard Rives |
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| 1941 |
Bright • Byrnes • Eicher • Frank • Freed • Healey • Jackson • Leahy • Leavy • Lovett • Madden • McAllister • McGuire • Miller • Minton • Moore • Riddick • Rifkind • J. Smith • W. Smith • Stone • Timmerman • Vogel • Waring • Woodbury • Wyzanski | ||
| 1942 |
Brennan • Cole • Delehant • Ekwall • Goodman • Hall • Hannay • Keeling • Meaney | ||
| 1943 |
Arnold • Chandler • Clark • Duncan • Helvering • Hulen • Lawrence • Lee • McLaughlin • Mullins • Rutledge • Swygert • Waller | ||
| 1944 |
Bone • Connor • Graven • Hutcheson • Kennedy • LaBuy • O'Connell • Schweinhaut • Shaw | ||
| 1945 | |||
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| Active judges |
Chief Judge: Carl Stewart • James Dennis • James Graves • Edith Jones • Carolyn King • Leslie Southwick • Priscilla Owen • Jennifer Elrod • Catharina Haynes • Edith Clement • Edward Prado • Jerry Smith • Eugene Davis • Grady Jolly • Stephen Higginson | ||
| Senior judges |
Thomas Reavley • Patrick Higginbotham • John Duhe • Harold DeMoss • Fortunato Benavides • Emilio Garza • Jacques Wiener • Rhesa Barksdale • | ||
| Former judges | John Minor Wisdom • Edward Harris • Peter Fay • John Godbold • Robert Lanier Anderson • Phyllis Kravitch • Gerald Tjoflat • Joseph Hatchett • Albert Henderson • Paul Roney • David Dyer • Elbert Tuttle • Thomas Clark • Richard Rives • Robert Vance • Lewis Morgan • James Hill • Andrew Phelps McCormick • Don Albert Pardee • Robert Hill • Alvin Rubin • Henry Politz • Reynaldo Garza • Albert Tate, Jr. • Jerre Williams • Robert Parker • Charles Pickering • David Davie Shelby • Rufus Edward Foster • Robert Lynn Batts • Nathan Philemon Bryan • Edwin Ruthven Holmes • Joseph Chappell Hutcheson • Alexander Campbell King • Samuel Hale Sibley • Claude Feemster Clayton • Richard Wilde Walker • Wayne Borah • Louie Willard Strum • Irving Goldberg • Leon McCord • Warren Leroy Jones • Robert Ainsworth • Joe Ingraham • William Thornberry • George Carswell • Curtis Waller • Griffin Bell • John Brown • Benjamin Cameron • James Coleman • Thomas Gee • Walter Gewin • Samuel Johnson • Elmo Lee • John Bryan Simpson • Frank M. Johnson, Jr. • Charles Clark • Robert Lee Russell • | ||
| Former Chief judges |
John Godbold • Elbert Tuttle • Richard Rives • Carolyn King • Henry Politz • Joseph Chappell Hutcheson • John Brown • James Coleman • Charles Clark • | ||
