Adolphus Frederic St. Sure

Nonpartisan

Prior offices:

United States District Court for the Northern District of California

Years in office: 1947 - 1949

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Years in office: 1925 - 1947

Education

Law

Read law, 1895

Personal

Birthplace

Sheboygan, WI

Adolphus Frederic St. Sure (1869-1949) was afederal judge on theUnited States District Court for the Northern District of California.

He was nominated by PresidentCalvin Coolidge on February 16, 1925 to replaceMaurice Timothy Dooling. He was confirmed by the Senate onFebruary 23rd, and received commission that same day. OnJune 30, 1947, he assumedsenior status. He served until his death onFebruary 5, 1949. St. Sure was succeeded in this position byHerbert Erskine.

Early life and education

• Read law, 1895

Professional career

• Private practice, Alameda County, California, 1895-1923
• City recorder, Alameda County, 1893-1899
• City attorney, Alameda County, 1915-1917
• Judge, Superior Court of Alameda, 1917-1922
• Associate justice, District Court of Appeal, First District of California, 1923-1925

Judicial nominations and appointments

Northern District of California

St. Sure was nominated by PresidentCalvin Coolidge on February 16, 1925 to replaceMaurice Timothy Dooling.^[1] He was confirmed by the Senate onFebruary 23rd, and received commission that same day. OnJune 30, 1947, he assumedsenior status. He served until his death onFebruary 5, 1949. St. Sure was succeeded in this position byHerbert Erskine.

External links

• St. Sure's Biography at theFederal Judicial Center

Footnotes

v • e Federal judges nominated byCalvin Coolidge
1923	Cochran
1924	Boynton •Davis •Dawkins, Sr. •Graham •Hand •Jones •Kennamer •Kerrigan •Martin •McCormick •Moorman •Pray •Young
1925	A. Anderson •H. Anderson •Baltzell •Beattie •Booth •Burns •Clark •Dawson •Foster •Henning •Hough •Johnson •McCamant •Meekins •Molyneaux •Moorman •Moscowitz •Otis •Parker •Raymond •Sanborn •Slick •St. Sure •Stone •Thacher • Van Valkenburgh
1926	Cavanah •Dietrich •Moss •Swan •Tilson
1927	Adler •Bryant •F. Coleman •W. Coleman •Hand •Hayes •Kirkpatrick •Letts •McNary •Moinet •Northcott •Tilson •Wham
1928	Borah •Burrows •Cline •Cotteral •Deaver •Dewey •Gordon •Green •Hahn •Hickenlooper •Hicks •Louderback •Martineau •McCarthy •McDermott •McVicar •Norcross •Sinnott •Taylor •Tilson •Vaught •West
1929	Akerman •Chase •Cox •Fake •Garrett •Nevin •Ritter •Woodward

v • e Federal judges who have served theUnited States District Court for the Northern District of California
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  •