Edward Coke Billings

Nonpartisan

Prior offices:

United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Years in office: 1881 - 1893

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U.S. District Court for the District of Louisiana

Years in office: 1876 - 1881

Education

Bachelor's

Yale College, 1853

Personal

Birthplace

Hatfield, MA

Edward Coke Billings (1829-1893) was afederal judge on theUnited States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana.

He was nominated by PresidentUlysses Grant on January 10, 1876. He was confirmed by the Senate onFebruary 10, 1876, and received commission that same day. On March 3, 1881, he was reassigned to this court after his nomination to the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit was turned down by the Senate. He served until his death onDecember 1, 1893.^[1] Billings was succeeded in this position byCharles Parlange.

Early life and education

Judge Billing graduated from Yale College in 1853.^[1]

Professional career

Judge Billings was nominated to theUnited States Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit in 1881, but the nomination failed in the Senate.^[1]

Judicial nominations and appointments

Eastern District of Louisiana

Billings was nominated by PresidentUlysses Grant on January 10, 1876. He was confirmed by the Senate onFebruary 10, 1876, and received commission that same day. On March 3, 1881, he was reassigned to this court after his nomination to the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit was turned down by the Senate. He served until his death onDecember 1, 1893.^[1] Billings was succeeded in this position byCharles Parlange.

External links

• Judge Billings's Biography from theFederal Judicial Center

Footnotes

v • e Federal judges nominated byUlysses Grant
1869	Dillon •Drummond •Gresham •Hillyer •McKennan •Shepley •Woodruff •Woods
1870	Blodgett •Bond •Bradley •Charles Daniel Drake •Emmons •Hopkins •Humphreys •Knowles •Longyear •MacArthur •Nixon •Sawyer •Strong •Winch
1871	Bradford •McKinney •Rives •Story •Swing
1872	Dick •Hunt •Locke •Morrill
1873	Howe •Shipman •Welker
1874	Foster •Hughes •Richarson •Waite •Wallace
1875	Brown •Bruce •Dyer •Johnson •Parker
1876 -77	Billings •Hallett •Ketcham •Settle

v • e Federal judges who have served theUnited States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana
Active judges	Chief Judge: Wendy Vitter  •  Greg Guidry  •  Jay Zainey  •  Jane Triche-Milazzo  •  Nannette Jolivette Brown  •  Susie Morgan  •  William J. Crain  •  Barry Ashe  •  Darrel Papillion  •  Brandon Long (Louisiana)
Senior judges	Sarah Vance (Louisiana)  •  Eldon Fallon  •  Mary Ann Lemmon  •  Ivan Lemelle  •  Carl Barbier  •  Lance Africk  •
Magistrate judges	Karen Wells Roby  •  Michael B. North  •  Janis van Meerveld  •  Donna Phillips Currault  •
Former Article III judges	Thomas Porteous  •  John Dick  •  Thomas Bolling Robertson  •  Samuel Hadden Harper  •  Philip Kissick Lawrence  •  Theodore Howard McCaleb  •  Edward Henry Durell  •  Edward Coke Billings  •  Edith Clement  •  Alvin Rubin  •  Charles Parlange  •  Rufus Edward Foster  •  Eugene Davis Saunders  •  Helen Berrigan  •  Martin Feldman  •  Frederick Heebe  •  A.J. McNamara  •  Kurt Engelhardt  •  Charles Schwartz  •  Peter Beer  •  Marcel Livaudais  •  Charlton Reid Beattie  •  Wayne Borah  •  Louis Henry Burns  •  Robert Ainsworth  •  George Arceneaux  •  Edward Boyle  •  Adrian Caillouet  •  Patrick Carr (Louisiana)  •  Fred Cassibry  •  Herbert Christenberry  •  Robert Collins  •  James Comiskey  •  Adrian Duplantier  •  Frank Ellis  •  Jack M. Gordon  •  Okla Jones  •  Henry Mentz  •  Lansing Mitchell  •  Morey Sear  •  Elmer West  •  Roger West (Louisiana)  •  Veronica Wicker  •  James Wright (Louisiana)  •
Former Chief judges	Edith Clement  •  Helen Berrigan  •  Sarah Vance (Louisiana)  •  Frederick Heebe  •  A.J. McNamara  •  Herbert Christenberry  •  Morey Sear  •  Elmer West  •  Nannette Jolivette Brown  •