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Leon McCord
Leon Clarence McCord (1878-1952) was a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the 5th 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
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Judge McCord's Biography from the Federal Judicial Center.
| Political 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: Jennifer Elrod • Don Willett • James Graves • Carl Stewart • Edith Jones • Leslie Southwick • Priscilla Richman • Catharina Haynes • Jerry Edwin Smith (Fifth Circuit) • Kurt Engelhardt • Irma Ramirez • Stephen Higginson • Cory Wilson • Stuart Kyle Duncan • James Ho • Andrew Oldham • Dana Douglas | ||
| Senior judges |
James Dennis • Carolyn King • Patrick Higginbotham • John Duhe • Edith Clement • Fortunato Benavides • Jacques Wiener • W. Eugene Davis • Grady Jolly • 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 (Eleventh Circuit) • Richard Rives • Robert Vance • Lewis Morgan • James Hill (Federal judge) • Andrew Phelps McCormick • Don Albert Pardee • Thomas Reavley • Harold DeMoss • Edward Prado • Robert Madden 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 Jr. • 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 Robert Brown (Federal judge) • Benjamin Cameron • James Coleman (federal judge) • Thomas Gee • Walter Gewin • Samuel Johnson • Elmo Lee • John Bryan Simpson • Frank M. Johnson, Jr. • Charles Clark (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit) • Robert Lee Russell (Federal judge) • Gregg Costa • | ||
| Former Chief judges |
John Godbold • Elbert Tuttle • Richard Rives • Carl Stewart • Carolyn King • Priscilla Richman • Henry Politz • Joseph Chappell Hutcheson Jr. • John Robert Brown (Federal judge) • James Coleman (federal judge) • Charles Clark (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit) • | ||
