William Walls
| William Walls | |
| Current Court Information: | |
| United States District Court for the District of New Jersey | |
| Title: | Senior Judge |
| Position: | Seat #4T |
| Station: | Newark, NJ |
| Service: | |
| Appointed by: | Bill Clinton |
| Active: | 10/11/1994 - 01/30/2005 |
| Senior: | 01/31/2005 - Present |
| Preceded by: | Harold Ackerman |
| Succeeded by: | Renee Bumb |
| Past post: | New Jersey Superior Courts, Judge |
| Past term: | 1979 - 1994 |
| Personal History | |
| Born: | 1932 |
| Home State: | Atlantic City, NJ |
| Bachelors: | Dartmouth College, A.B., 1954 |
| Law School: | Yale Law, LL.B., 1957 |
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William H. Walls is a federal judge for the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey. He joined the court in 1994 after being nominated by President Bill Clinton. Walls is serving on senior status.
Early life and education
A native of New Jersey, Walls graduated from Dartmouth College with his Bachelor's Degree in 1954 and later graduated from Yale Law School with his Law Degree in 1957.[1]
Professional career
Walls started his legal career as a law clerk from 1957 to 1959 before becoming a private practice attorney licensed in the State of New Jersey from 1959 to 1962, 1968 to 1980 and 1972 to 1975. In 1962, Walls became Assistant corporation counsel for the City of Newark till 1968. Walls also served as Corporation Counsel for the City of Newark from 1970 to 1973l. In addition to his private practice work, Walls was a Municipal Court Judge for the City of Newark, Newark Municipal Court from 1968 to 1970. In 1974, Walls also became the Business Administrator for the City of Newark until 1977. Then in 1977, Walls returned to being a judge first in the Essex County Court from 1977 to 1978 and on the New Jersey Superior Court from 1970 to 1994.
Judicial career
District of New Jersey
On the unanimous recommendation of New Jersey U.S. Senators Bill Bradley and Bill Lautenberg, Walls was nominated by President Bill Clinton on September 14, 1994 to a seat vacated by Harold Ackerman as Ackerman assumed senior status. Walls was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on October 7, 1994 on a Senate vote and received commission on October 11, 1994. Walls assumed senior status on January 31, 2005.
See also
External links
References
- ↑ Judge Walls's Biography from the Federal Judicial Center.
| Federal judicial offices | ||
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| Preceded by: Harold Ackerman |
District of New Jersey 1994–2005 Seat #4 |
Succeeded by: Renee Bumb |
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| 1993 |
Adams • Ambrose • Barnes • Brinkema • Bucklew • Chasanow • Coffman • Daughtrey • Ferguson • Ginsburg • Hagen • Jackson • Lancaster • Leval • Lindsay • Messitte • Michael • Piersol • Saris • Schwartz • Seybert • Shanahan • Shaw • Stearns • Trager • Vazquez • Wilken • Wilson | ||
| 1994 |
Baer • Barkett • Batts • Beaty • Benavides • Bennett • Berrigan • Biery • Block • Borman • Breyer • Briones • Bryson • Bucklo • Burgess • Burrage • Cabranes • Calabresi • Carr • Casellas • Castillo • Chatigny • Chin • Cindrich • Coar • Collins • Cooper • Cote • Currie • Davis • Dominguez • Downes • Duval • Friedman • Furgeson • Garcia • Gertner • Gettleman • Gillmor • Gilmore • Gleeson • Haggerty • Hamilton • Hannah • Hawkins • Henry • Holmes • Hood • Hull • Hurley • Jack • Jones • Jones • Kaplan • Katz • Kern • Kessler • Koeltl • Lisi • Manning • McKee • McLaughlin • Melancon • Miles-LaGrange • Moore • Motz • Murphy • O'Malley • O'Meara • Oliver • Paez • B. Parker • F. Parker • R. Parker • Perry • Ponsor • Pooler • Porteous • Rendell • Riley • Robertson • Rogers • Ross • Russell • Sands • Sarokin • Scheindlin • Silver • Squatrito • Stewart • Sullivan • Tatel • Thompson • Timlin • Urbina • Vanaskie • Vance • Walls • Wells • Williams | ||
| 1995 |
Arterton • Atlas • Black • Blake • Briscoe • Tena Campbell • Todd Campbell • Chesney • Cole • Collier • Daniel • Davis • Dennis • Dlott • Donald • Duffy • Economus • Evans • Fallon • Folsom • Gaughan • Goodwin • Heartfield • Hunt • Illston • Jones • King • Kornmann • Lawson • Lenard • Lucero • Lynch • McKinley • Moody • Moore • Moskowitz • Murphy • Murtha • Nugent • O'Toole • Orlofsky • Pogue • Sessions • C. Smith • O. Smith • Stein • Thornburg • Tunheim • Wallach • Wardlaw • Webber • Whaley • Winmill • Wood | ||
| 1996 |
Broadwater • Clevert • Fenner • Gershon • Gottschall • Greenaway • Hinkle • Jones • Kahn • Laughrey • Lemmon • Marten • Miller • Molloy • Montgomery • Pregerson • Rakoff • Sargus • Tashima • Thomas • Zapata | ||
| 1997 |
Adelman • Bataillon • Breyer • Caputo • Casey • Chambers • Clay • Damrell • Droney • Friedman • Gajarsa • Garland • Gilman • Gold • Gwin • Hall • Hayden • Hull • Ishii • Jenkins • Kauffman • Kennedy • Kimball • Kollar-Kotelly • Lazzara • Marbley • Marcus • Middlebrooks • Miller • Moon • Pratt • Rendell • Sippel • Siragusa • Snyder • Thrash | ||
| 1998 |
Aiken • Barbier • Barzilay • Berman • Buttram • Carter • Collins • Dawson • Dimitrouleas • Fletcher • Fogel • Frank • Graber • Hellerstein • Herndon • James • Johnson • Kane • Kelly • G. King • R. King • Lasnik • Lee • Lemelle • Lindsay • Lipez • Manella • Matz • McCuskey • McKeown • McMahon • Mickle • Mollway • Mordue • Moreno • Morrow • Munley • Murphy • Pallmeyer • Pauley • Polster • Pooler • Rawlinson • Ridgway • R. Roberts • V. Roberts • Sack • Scott • Seitz • Seymour • Shea • Silverman • Sleet • Sotomayor • Steeh • Story • Straub • Tagle • Tarnow • Trauger • Traxler • Tyson • Wardlaw • Whelan • Young | ||
| 1999 |
Alsup • Barry • Brown • Buchwald • Cooper • Eaton • Ellison • Feess • Fisher • Gould • Guzman • Haynes • Hibbler • Hochberg • Hurd • Huvelle • Jordan • Katzmann • Kennelly • Linn • Lorenz • Lynn • Marrero • Murguia • Pannell • Pechman • Pepper • Phillips • Schreier • Stewart • Underhill • Ward • Williams • Wilson | ||
| 2000 |
Ambro • Antoon • Battani • Berzon • Bolton • Brady • Bye • Cavanaugh • Daniels • Darrah • Dawson • Dyk • Fuentes • Garaufis • Garcia-Gregory • Gregory • Hamilton • Huck • Hunt • Lawson • Lefkow • Lynch • Martin • McLaughlin • Moody • Murguia • Paez • Pisano • Presnell • Rawlinson • Reagan • Schiller • Singal • Steele • Surrick • Swain • Tallman • Teilborg • Tucker • Whittemore | ||
