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Ralph Winter
Ralph K. Winter, Jr. was a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit. He joined the court in 1981 after being nominated by President Ronald Reagan (R). Winter assumed senior status on September 30, 2000. His service ended on December 8, 2020, when he died.[1]
Winter previously served as a professor at Yale Law School.[1]
Early life and education
A native of Waterbury, Connecticut, Winter graduated from Yale University with his bachelor's degree in 1957, and from Yale Law School with his law degree in 1960.[1]
Professional career
- 1962-1982: Faculty, Yale Law School
- 1968-1982: Professor
- 1964-1968: Assistant/associate professor
- 1962-1964: Research associate and lecturer
- 1972-1981: Adjutant scholar, American Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C.
- 1971-1972: Guggenheim fellow, Washington, D.C.
- 1968-1972: Consultant, Subcommittee on separation of powers, Senate Judiciary Committee
- 1968-1970: Senior fellow, Brookings Institute, Washington, D.C.
- 1961-1962: Law clerk, Hon. Thurgood Marshall, United States Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit
- 1960-1961: Law clerk, Hon. Caleb Wright, United States District Court for the District of Delaware[1]
Federal judicial career
2nd Circuit Court of Appeals
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| Nominee Information |
| Name: Ralph K. Winter, Jr. |
| Court: United States Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit |
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| Confirmed 21 days after nomination. |
 Nominated: November 18, 1981
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| Confirmed: December 9, 1981
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| Vote: Unanimous consent
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Winter was nominated by President Ronald Reagan (R) on November 18, 1981, to a seat vacated by Walter Mansfield. Winter was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on December 9, 1981, on a voice vote and he received his commission on December 10, 1981. Winter served as the chief judge of the court from 1997 to 2000 before assuming senior status on September 30, 2000. His service ended on December 8, 2020, when he died.[1] He was succeeded to this post by Barrington Parker.
See also
External links
- Search Google News for this topic
- Judge Winter's biography from the Second Circuit's website
- Judge Winter's biography at the Federal Judicial Center
Footnotes
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| Preceded by: Walter Mansfield |
Second Circuit 1981–2000 Seat #4 |
Succeeded by: Barrington Parker
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| 1981 |
Bartlett • Beam • Becker • Bork • Cacheris • Cardamone • Chapman • Coughenour • Cox • Crow • Cyr • Doumar • Eschbach • Forrester • Garwood • Gibson • Glasser • Hall • Hamilton • Head • Jones • Kiser • Krenzler • Lee • Magnuson • McLaughlin • Miner • Moore • Nowlin • O'Connor • Pierce • Posner • Potter • Russell • Ryan • Shabaz • Sprizzo • Stevens • Waters • Wilhoit • Wilkins • Winter | ||
| 1982 |
Acker • Acosta • Altimari • Bell • Bissell • Black • Bullock • Caldwell • Coffey • Contie • Coyle • Dowd • Fagg • Fong • Fox • Gadbois • Gibson • Ginsburg • Hart • Higginbotham • Hogan • Irving • Jackson • Jolly • Kanne • Kovachevich • Krupansky • Lynch • Mansmann • McNamara • Mencer • Mentz • Mihm • Moody • Nordberg • Paul • Pieras • Plunkett • Porfilio • Potter • Pratt • Rafeedie • Restani • Roberts • Scalia • Selya • Telesca • Wellford | ||
| 1983 |
Baldock • Barbour • Barry • Bowman • Carman • Carter • Curran • Davis • Dorsey • Feldman • Fish • Flaum • Gibbons • Hallanan • Harris • Hinojosa • Hull • Hupp • Katz • Keenan • Kelly • Kram • Laffitte • Limbaugh, Sr. • Limbaugh, Sr. • Milburn • Nesbitt • Nevas • O'Neill • Rymer • Sharp • Starr • Vinson • Vukasin • Wexler • Woods | ||
| 1984 |
Barker • Beezer • Biggers • Billings • Bissell • Boyle • Brewster • Browning • DiCarlo • Duhe • Garcia • George • Hall • Hargrove • Higgins • Hill • Holland • Ideman • Jarvis • Keller • Leavy • Lee • Legge • Leisure • Little • Livaudais • Longobardi • McKibben • Milburn • Newman • Norgle • Prado • Rea • Rosenblatt • Rovner • Scirica • Smith, Jr. • Sneeden • Stotler • Suhrheinrich • Torruella • Wiggins • Wilkinson | ||
| 1985 |
Alley • Altimari • Anderson • Aquilino • Archer • Arnold • Baldock • Batchelder • Battey • Broomfield • Brown • Brown • Brunetti • Buckley • Cobb • Conmy • Cowen • Davidson • Dimmick • Duff • Easterbrook • Edgar • Farnan • Fernandez • Fitzpatrick • Fuste • Greene • Gunn • Guy • Hall • Hilton • Holderman • Hughes • Johnson • Jones • Korman • Kozinski • La Plata • Leinenweber • Letts • Lovell • Ludwig • Maloney • Mansmann • Marcus • McDonald • Meredith • Miller • Mills • Miner • Motz • Nelson • Noonan • Porfilio • Revercomb • Rhoades • Ripple • Rodriguez • Rosenbaum • Roth • Ryan • Sam • Scott • Sentelle • Silberman • Sporkin • Stanton • Stapleton • Strand • Strom • Tacha • Tevrizian • Thompson • Todd • Tsoucalas • Walker • Walter • Weber • Williams • Wilson • Wingate • Wolf • Wollman • Young • Zloch | ||
| 1986 |
Anderson • Boggs • Bryan • Cedarbaum • Cholakis • Conway • Davies • Dearie • Dubina • Duggan • Edmondson • Fawsett • Fitzwater • Gex • Graham • Hackett • Hansen • Henderson • Hittner • Howard • Jensen • Kay • Kleinfeld • Kosik • Lagueux • Lechner • Magill • Mahoney • Manion • McAvoy • McQuade • Norris • O'Scannlain • Rehnquist • Ryskamp • Scalia • Selya • Simpson • Smalkin • Spencer • Stiehl • Wilkins • Williams • Woodlock • Zatkoff | ||
| 1987 |
Alesia • Beam • Bell • Conboy • Cowen • Cummings • Daronco • Doty • Dwyer • Ebel • Ellis • Gadola • Gawthrop • Greenberg • Harrington • Howard • Hoyt • Hutchinson • Kanne • Kelly • Larimer • Leavy • Lew • Marsh • Mayer • McKinney • Michel • Mukasey • Musgrave • Niemeyer • Parker • Phillips • Politan • Pro • Raggi • Reasoner • Reed • Scirica • Sentelle • Smith • Smith • Stadtmueller • Standish • Tinder • Torres • Trott • Turner • Van Antwerpen • Voorhees • Webb • Whipple • Wolin • Wolle • Wood • Zagel | ||
| 1988 |
Arcara • Babcock • Brorby • Butler • Cambridge • Camp • Conlon • Cox • Dubois • Duhe • Ezra • Forester • Friedman • Garza • Hutton • Jordan • Kennedy • Lake • Lamberth • Lifland • Lozano • Marovich • Nygaard • Patterson • Schell • Smith • Smith • Tilley • Waldman • Zilly | ||
