Terry Hatter
| Terry Hatter | |
| Current Court Information: | |
| United States District Court for the Central District of California | |
| Title: | Senior Judge |
| Position: | Seat #17 |
| Service: | |
| Appointed by: | Jimmy Carter |
| Active: | 12/20/1979 - 4/22/2005 |
| Chief: | 1998 - 2001 |
| Senior: | 4/22/2005 - Present |
| Preceded by: | 92 Stat. 1629 |
| Succeeded by: | Philip Gutierrez |
| Personal History | |
| Born: | 1933 |
| Home State: | Chicago, IL |
| Undergraduate: | Wesleyan U., B.A., 1954 |
| Law School: | U. of Chicago Law School, J.D., 1960 |
| Military service: | U.S. Air Force 1955 - 1956 NCO-In-Charge |
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Terry J. Hatter, Jr. is a federal judge for the United States District Court for the Central District of California. He joined the court in 1979 after being nominated by President Jimmy Carter. Hatter is serving on senior status.
Early life and education
A native of Chicago, Hatter graduated from Wesleyan University with his Bachelor's Degree in 1954 and later graduated from the University of Chicago Law School with his Juris Doctor degree in 1960. [1]
Professional career
- U.S. Air Force NCO-In-Charge, 1955-1956
- Adjudicator, U.S. Veterans Administration, Chicago, Illinois, 1960-1961
- Private practice, Chicago, Illinois, 1961-1962
- Assistant public defender, Cook County, Illinois, 1961-1962
- Assistant U.S. attorney, Northern District of California, 1962-1966
- Special assistant U.S. attorney, Eastern District of California, 1965-1966
- Chief counsel, San Francisco Neighborhood Legal Assistance Foundation, 1966-1967
- Regional legal services director, Office of Economic Opportunity, San Francisco, California, 1967-1970
- Executive director, Western Center on Law and Poverty, Los Angeles, California, 1970-1973
- Associate clinical professor of law, University of Southern California Law Center, 1970-1974
- Professor of law, Loyola University, Los Angeles, California, 1973-1975
- Special assistant to the mayor and director of criminal justice planning, Los Angeles, California, 1974-1975
- Special assistant to the mayor and director of urban development, Los Angeles, California, 1975-1977
- Judge, Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, 1977-1980 [1]
Judicial career
Central District of California
On the recommendation of U.S. Senator Alan Cranston, Hatter was nominated by President Jimmy Carter on September 28, 1979 to a new seat created by 92 Stat. 1629 which was approved by Congress. Hatter was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on December 19, 1979 on a Senate vote and received commission on December 20, 1979. Hatter served as the chief judge of the court from 1998 to 2001 and assumed senior status on April 22, 2005. [1]
Judicial philosophy
Judicial pay dispute
Hatter is one of eight judges pressing a claim that Congress has violated the Constitution's compensation clause by failing to honor promised judicial salary increases in five separate years. The case was thrown out on October 16, 2009, but the group of judges are appealing it to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. [2]
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| Federal judicial offices | ||
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| Preceded by: NA-New Seat |
Central District of California 1979–2005 Seat #17 |
Succeeded by: Philip Gutierrez |
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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 | |||
