Norman Black
Norman William Black (1931-1997) was a federal judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas.
Black was nominated to the Southern District of Texas by President Jimmy Carter on February 23, 1979, to a new seat created by 92 Stat. 1629; he was confirmed by the Senate on May 10, 1979, and received commission the next day. From 1992-1996, he served as the chief judge. He assumed senior status on December 6, 1996. He served the Southern District of Texas until his death on July 23, 1997.[1]
Early life and education
- University of Texas, B.B.A., 1953
- University of Texas School of Law, LL.B., 1955[1]
Professional career
- Private practice, Houston, Texas, 1955
- U.S. Army Military Police, 1955-1957
- Law clerk, Hon. Ben C. Connally, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas, 1957-1958
- Assistant U.S. attorney, Houston, Texas, 1958-1960
- Private practice, Houston, Texas, 1960-1976
- Adjunct professor, University of Houston School of Law, 1970-1975
- Adjunct professor, South Texas College of Law, 1975-1997
- Judge in residence, University of Cincinnati, 1989[1]
Judicial career
Southern District of Texas
Black was nominated to the Southern District of Texas by President Jimmy Carter on February 23, 1979, to a new seat created by 92 Stat. 1629; he was confirmed by the Senate on May 10, 1979, and received commission the next day. From 1992-1996, he served as the chief judge. He assumed senior status on December 6, 1996. He served the Southern District of Texas until his death on July 23, 1997.[1]
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Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Judge Black's Biography from the Federal Judicial Center.
| Political offices | ||
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| Preceded by: NA-New Seat |
Southern District of Texas 1979–1996 Seat #12 |
Succeeded by: Keith Ellison
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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 | |||
