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Martin Welsh
Martin Ignatius Welsh (1882-1953) was a federal judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.
He was nominated by President Franklin Roosevelt on June 21, 1939 to a seat created by 52 Stat. 584. He was confirmed by the Senate on July 11, 1939, and received commission on July 14th. On December 31, 1946, he assumed senior status. He served on this court until his death on January 4, 1953. Welsh was succeeded in this position by Dal Lemmon.
Early life and education
- Read law, 1912
Professional career
- Private practice, 1912-1932
- Deputy district attorney, Sacramento County, California, 1914
- Judge, Superior Court of Sacramento County, California, 1914
- U.S. Commissioner, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, 1914-1919
- City councilman, Sacramento, 1928-1929
- Mayor of Sacramento, 1929
- Member, Board of Education of Sacramento, 1931
- Judge, Superior Court, Sacramento County, 1932-1939
Judicial career
Northern District of California
Welsh was nominated by President Franklin Roosevelt on June 21, 1939 to a seat created by 52 Stat. 584.[1] He was confirmed by the Senate on July 11, 1939, and received commission on July 14th. On December 31, 1946, he assumed senior status. He served on this court until his death on January 4, 1953. Welsh was succeeded in this position by Dal Lemmon.
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| Political offices | ||
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| Preceded by: NA-New Seat |
Northern District of California 1939–1946 Seat #4 |
Succeeded by: Dal Lemmon
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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 | ||
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| Active judges |
Chief Judge: Richard Seeborg • Beth Labson Freeman • Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers • Trina Thompson • Jon S. Tigar • Jacqueline Scott Corley • James Donato • Vince Girdhari Chhabria • Haywood Stirling Gilliam, Jr. • Noël Wise • Rita Lin • Eumi Lee • Araceli Martínez-Olguín • P. Casey Pitts | ||
| Senior judges |
Thelton Henderson • William Alsup (California) • Saundra Armstrong • Charles Breyer • Maxine Chesney • Phyllis Hamilton • Susan Illston • Claudia Wilken • Edward Chen • Jeffrey White • Edward J. Davila • William Orrick III • | ||
| Magistrate judges | Kandis Westmore • Laurel Beeler • Nathanael Cousins • Donna Ryu • Sallie Kim • Susan van Keulen • Thomas Hixson • Alex Tse • Robert Illman • Virginia DeMarchi • | ||
| Former Article III judges |
Dal Lemmon • Oliver Hamlin • Cecil Poole • Ogden Hoffman • William Morrow • John Jefferson DeHaven • William Cary Van Fleet • Maurice Timothy Dooling • John Slater Partridge • Vaughn Walker • Jeremy Fogel • Marilyn Patel • James Ware • Ronald Whyte • Frank Henry Kerrigan • Harold Louderback • Adolphus Frederic St. Sure • Michael Roche (California) • Sherrill Halbert • Thomas MacBride • Martin Welsh • Robert Aguilar (California federal judge) • Oliver Carter • Barbara Caulfield • Herbert Erskine • Monroe Friedman • Louis Goodman • George Harris (California) • William Ingram (California) • Charles Legge • Gerald Levin • Eugene Lynch • William Orrick Jr. • Robert Peckham • Charles Renfrew • Robert Schnacke • Fern Smith (California) • William Sweigert • John Vukasin • Stanley Weigel • Spencer Williams • Delwen Jensen • Samuel Conti • Patrica Trumbull • Albert Wollenberg • Alfonso Zirpoli • Lloyd Burke • Martin J. Jenkins • Lucy H. Koh (California) • | ||
| Former Chief judges |
Vaughn Walker • Thelton Henderson • Phyllis Hamilton • Marilyn Patel • James Ware • Michael Roche (California) • Oliver Carter • Louis Goodman • George Harris (California) • William Ingram (California) • Robert Peckham • | ||
