Constantine Joseph Smyth

Nonpartisan

Prior offices:

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

Years in office: 1917 - 1924

Education

Law

Read law, 1885

Graduate

Creighton University, 1907

Constantine Joseph Smyth (1859-1924) was afederal judge on theUnited States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

He was nominated by PresidentWoodrow Wilson on June 29, 1917 to fill the seat vacated bySeth Shepard. He was confirmed by the Senate onJuly 12, 1917, and received commission that same day. He served until his death onApril 14, 1924.^[1]

Education

• Read law, 1885
• Creighton University, A.M., 1907^[1]

Professional career

• Private practice, Omaha, Nebraska, 1885-1913
• Member, Nebraska House of Representatives, 1887
• Member, Omaha School Board, 1889-1894
• Chairman, Nebraska State Democratic Committee, 1894-1896
• Attorney general of Nebraska, 1897-1900
• Associate dean and professor, Creighton University College of Law, 1905-1910
• Special assistant to the U.S. attorney general, 1913-1917^[1]

External links

• Biography by Scott Michaud.

Footnotes

v • e Federal judges who have served theU.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit
Active judges	Chief Judge: Srikanth Srinivasan  •  Karen Henderson  •  J. Michelle Childs  •  Florence Pan  •  Robert Leon Wilkins  •  Patricia Ann Millett  •  Cornelia T. L. Pillard  •  Greg Katsas  •  Neomi Rao  •  Justin Walker (U.S. Court of Appeals)  •  Bradley Garcia
Senior judges	David Sentelle  •  Douglas Ginsburg  •  David Tatel  •  Harry Edwards  •  Arthur Randolph  •
Former judges	William Cranch  •  James Markham Marshall  •  Allen Bowie Duckett  •  Nicholas Battalle Fitzhugh  •  William Kilty  •  James Sewall Morsell  •  Buckner Thruston  •  James Dunlop  •  William Matthew Merrick  •  Richard Henry Alvey  •  Martin Ferdinand Morris  •  Seth Shepard  •  Louis Emory McComas  •  Charles Holland Duell  •  Charles Henry Robb  •  Josiah Alexander Van Orsdel  •  William Hitz  •  Constantine Joseph Smyth  •  Duncan Groner  •  George Ewing Martin  •  James McPherson Proctor (Federal judge)  •  Harold Montelle Stephens  •  Henry Edgerton  •  Justin Miller (D.C. Circuit)  •  Stephen F. Williams  •  Janice Rogers Brown  •  Merrick Garland  •  Thomas Griffith  •  Brett Kavanaugh  •  Laurence Silberman  •  Walter Bastian  •  Edward Tamm  •  Spottswood Robinson  •  Thurman Arnold  •  Bennett Clark  •  Wilbur Miller  •  David Bazelon  •  Robert Bork  •  John Danaher  •  Charles Fahy  •  George MacKinnon  •  Carl McGowan  •  Abner Mikva  •  Elijah Prettyman  •  Roger Robb  •  Kenneth Starr  •  Patricia Wald  •  George Thomas Washington (Federal judge)  •  Malcolm Wilkey  •  George Edward MacKinnon  •  Ketanji Brown Jackson  •  James Wright (Louisiana)  •
Former Chief judges	William Cranch  •  Richard Henry Alvey  •  Seth Shepard  •  Constantine Joseph Smyth  •  Duncan Groner  •  George Ewing Martin  •  Harold Montelle Stephens  •  Henry Edgerton  •  David Sentelle  •  Merrick Garland  •  Douglas Ginsburg  •  Harry Edwards  •  Spottswood Robinson  •  Wilbur Miller  •  David Bazelon  •  Carl McGowan  •  Abner Mikva  •  Elijah Prettyman  •  Patricia Wald  •  James Wright (Louisiana)  •

v • e Federal judges nominated byWoodrow Wilson
1913	Bingham •Brown •Call •Campbell •Dooling •Neterer •Rogers •Sawtelle •Sullivan •Thomas •Woods
1914	Bledsoe •Booth •Clarke •Clayton •Covington •Dickinson •Haight •Hand •McCoy •McReynolds •Siddons •Thomson •Walker •Woolley
1915	Downey •Howe •Lambdin •Trippet • Wade
1916	Alschuler •Brandeis •Davis •Evans •Hay •Hitz •Hough •J. Johnson •T. Johnson •Manton •Stone •West •Woodrough
1917	Adamson •Batts •Ervin •Evans •Jack •C. Johnson •Neblett •Smith •Smyth •Westenhaver
1918	Anderson •Bailey •English •FitzHenry •Garvin •Holmes •Hutcheson •Knox •Manton •McCoy •Williams
1919	Donahue •Faris •Graham •Haight •Lynch •Morris •Page •Peck •Sibley •Watkins •Webb •Weller •Wilson
1920	Bodine •Bryan •Cooper •Davis •Estes •King