Charles Prentiss Orr

Nonpartisan

Prior offices:

United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Years in office: 1909 - 1922

Education

Bachelor's

Hamilton College, 1879

Law

Read law, 1881

Personal

Birthplace

Pennsylvania

Charles Prentiss Orr (1858-1922) was afederal judge on theUnited States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.

He was nominated by PresidentWilliam Howard Taft on March 25, 1909. He was confirmed by the Senate onApril 8, 1909, and received commission that same day.^[1] He served until his death onMay 16, 1922. Orr was succeeded in this position byRobert Murray Gibson.

Early life and education

• Hamilton College, A.B., 1879
• Read law, 1881

Professional career

• Private practice, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1886-1909

Judicial nominations and appointments

Western District of Pennsylvania

Orr was nominated by PresidentWilliam Howard Taft on March 25, 1909. He was confirmed by the Senate onApril 8, 1909, and received commission that same day. He served until his death onMay 16, 1922.^[1] Orr was succeeded in this position byRobert Murray Gibson.

External links

• Biography from theFederal Judicial Center.

Footnotes

v • e Federal judges nominated byWilliam Howard Taft
1909	Bean •Carpenter •Connor •Donworth •Grubb •Hand •Hundley •Lanning •Lurton •Orr •Purdy •Rellstab •Warrington •Willard
1910	Archbald •Barber •Carland •Cooper •Denison •De Vries •Hollister •Hughes •Hunt •Killits •Knapp •Knappen •Lamar •Mack •Montgomery •Rasch •Rose •Russell •Smith •Van Devanter •Van Valkenburgh •White
1911	Angell •Day •Denison •Elliott •Martin •Rudkin •Schofield •Sessions •H. Smith •W. Smith •Veeder •Whitmer • Youmans
1912	Bourquin •Cheney •Cushman •Dodge •Geiger •Howard •Mayer •McPherson •Morton •Pitney •Pope •Sloan •Thompson •Tuttle •

v • e Federal judges who have served theUnited States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
Active judges	Chief Judge: Cathy Bissoon  •  Susan Baxter  •  Robert J. Colville  •  Marilyn J. Horan  •  Mark Raymond Hornak  •  J. Nicholas Ranjan  •  Stephanie Haines  •  William Shaw Stickman  •  Scott Hardy  •  Christy Wiegand
Senior judges	Nora Fischer  •  Arthur Schwab  •  David Cercone  •  Joy Conti  •
Magistrate judges	Keith Pesto  •  Maureen Kelly  •  Patricia Dodge  •  Richard Lanzillo  •  Kezia Taylor  •  Christopher Brown (Pennsylvania)  •
Former Article III judges	William Knox  •  Jonathan Hoge Walker  •  William Wilkins  •  Thomas Irwin  •  Wilson McCandless  •  Winthrop Welles Ketcham  •  Marcus Wilson Acheson  •  Joseph Weis (Third Circuit)  •  Brooks Smith  •  Thomas Hardiman  •  Joseph Buffington  •  Timothy Lewis (Pennsylvania)  •  James Hay Reed  •  Nathaniel Ewing  •  James Scott Young  •  Charles Prentiss Orr  •  W. H. Seward Thomson  •  Robert Murray Gibson  •  Alan Bloch  •  Maurice Cohill  •  Gustave Diamond  •  William Standish  •  Gary Lancaster  •  Terrence McVerry  •  Sean McLaughlin  •  Frederic Palen Schoonmaker  •  Nelson McVicar  •  Frederick Follmer  •  Carol Mansmann  •  Owen Burns  •  Robert Cindrich  •  Edward Dumbauld  •  Wallace Gourley  •  Rabe Marsh  •  Barron McCune  •  John McIlvaine  •  Glenn Mencer  •  John Lester Miller  •  Louis Rosenberg  •  Ralph Scalera  •  Daniel Snyder  •  Herbert Sorg  •  William Stewart (Pennsylvania)  •  Hubert Teitelbaum  •  Gerald Weber  •  Joseph Willson  •  Donald Ziegler  •  Donald Lee  •  Paul Simmons  •  Peter Phipps  •
Former Chief judges	Robert Murray Gibson  •  Donetta Ambrose  •  Maurice Cohill  •  Gustave Diamond  •  Gary Lancaster  •  Nelson McVicar  •  Wallace Gourley  •  Rabe Marsh  •  Herbert Sorg  •  Hubert Teitelbaum  •  Gerald Weber  •  Donald Ziegler  •  Mark Raymond Hornak  •