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Edward Prado

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Edward Prado
Prior offices:
United States Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit
Years in office: 2003 - 2018
United States District Court for the Western District of Texas
Years in office: 1984 - 2003
Education
Bachelor's
University of Texas, 1969
Law
University of Texas School of Law, 1972
Personal
Birthplace
San Antonio, TX


Edward Charles Prado was afederal judge on theUnited States Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit. He joined the court in 2003 after being nominated by PresidentGeorge W. Bush. He retired from the court on April 2, 2018, to take a position as an ambassador in PresidentDonald Trump's administration.[1]

Early life and education

Born inSan Antonio, Texas, Prado graduated from San Antonio Junior College with his associate degree in 1967, from the University of Texas with his bachelor's degree in 1969, and from the University of Texas School of Law with hisJ.D. in 1972.[2]

Military career

Prado served in the U.S. Army Reserve from 1972 to 1987.[2]

Professional career

Judicial nominations and appointments

Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals

Nomination Tracker
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Nominee Information
Name: Edward C. Prado
Court:United States Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit
Progress
Confirmed 84 days after nomination.
ApprovedANominated: February 6, 2003
ApprovedAABA Rating:Unanimously Well Qualified
Questionnaire:
ApprovedAHearing: March 27, 2003
Hearing Transcript:Hearing Transcript
QFRs:(Hover over QFRs to read more)
ApprovedAReported: April 3, 2003 
ApprovedAConfirmed: May 1, 2003
ApprovedAVote: 97-0

Prado was nominated to theUnited States Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit by PresidentGeorge W. Bush on February 6, 2003, to a seat vacated byRobert Parker. TheAmerican Bar Association rated PradoUnanimously Well Qualified for the nomination.[3] Hearings on Prado's nomination were held before theUnited States Senate Committee on the Judiciary on March 27, 2003, and his nomination was reported by U.S. Sen.Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) on April 3, 2003. Prado was confirmed on a recorded 97-0 vote of theU.S. Senate on May 1, 2003, and he received his commission on May 5, 2003.[2][4] He retired from the court in 2018.[1]

Western District of Texas

Prado was nominated to theUnited States District Court for the Western District of Texas by PresidentRonald Reagan on March 6, 1984, to a seat vacated by JudgeC. Frederick Shannon, Jr. Hearings on Prado's nomination were held before theSenate Judiciary Committee on March 20, 1984, and his nomination was reported by U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.) on March 22, 1984. Prado was confirmed on a voice vote of theUnited States Senate on March 30, 1984, and he received his commission the same day. Prado resigned from the district court on May 13, 2003, upon his elevation to theFifth Circuit Court of Appeals.[2][5] He was succeeded in this position by JudgeXavier Rodriguez.

Noteworthy cases

Clipper Estates case (2009)

See also:United States Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit (Joffroin v. Tufaro, 606 F. 3d 235)

JudgeMartin Feldman of theUnited States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana dismissed a lawsuit filed by fifty people who live in Clipper Estates in suburban New Orleans under allegations of violations of the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act. The residents sued on allegations that the owner of Clipper Estates - also the President of the New Orleans Home Builders Association - used money he assessed against them after Hurricane Katrina for personal purposes instead of improving the subdivision as he promised. Feldman dismissed the lawsuit claiming the plaintiffs had no standing under RICO.[6]
The case was appealed to theUnited States Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, where judgesThomas Reavley,Edward Prado, andPriscilla Richman affirmed Feldman's decision. It was determined that the plaintiffs in the case did not have standing after applying the three-part test from Whalen v. Carter, 954 F.2d 1087, 1093 (5th Cir.1992).[7]

See also

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Footnotes

Political offices
Preceded by:
Clyde Shannon		Western District of Texas
1984–2003
Seat #1		Succeeded by:
Xavier Rodriguez
Preceded by:
Robert Parker		Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
2003–2018		Succeeded by:
Andrew Oldham



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Chief Judge: Jennifer Elrod  •  Don Willett  •  James Graves  •  Carl Stewart  •  Edith Jones  •  Leslie Southwick  •  Priscilla Richman  •  Catharina Haynes  •  Jerry Edwin Smith (Fifth Circuit)  •  Kurt Engelhardt  •  Irma Ramirez  •  Stephen Higginson  •  Cory Wilson  •  Stuart Kyle Duncan  •  James Ho  •  Andrew Oldham  •  Dana Douglas

Senior judges

James Dennis  •  Carolyn King  •  Patrick Higginbotham  •  John Duhe  •  Edith Clement  •  Fortunato Benavides  •  Jacques Wiener  •  W. Eugene Davis  •  Grady Jolly  •  Rhesa Barksdale  •  

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Former Chief judges

John Godbold  •  Elbert Tuttle  •  Richard Rives  •  Carl Stewart  •  Carolyn King  •  Priscilla Richman  •  Henry Politz  •  Joseph Chappell Hutcheson Jr.  •  John Robert Brown (Federal judge)  •  James Coleman (federal judge)  •  Charles Clark (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit)  •  


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Active judges

Chief Judge: Alia Moses  •  Samuel Biery  •  Xavier Rodriguez  •  Kathleen Cardone  •  Orlando Garcia  •  Jason Pulliam  •  David Counts  •  Robert Pitman  •  Leon Schydlower  •  Alan Albright  •  Ernesto Gonzalez (Texas)

Senior judges

David Briones  •  Frank Montalvo  •  Robert Junell  •  David Alan Ezra  •  James Nowlin  •  David Guaderrama  •  

Magistrate judgesVictor Garcia  •  Jeff Manske  •  Collis White  •  Robert Castaneda  •  Anne Teresa Berton  •  Mark Lane (Texas)  •  Miguel Torres (Texas)  •  Henry J. Bemporad  •  Elizabeth Chestney  •  David Fannin  •  Dustin Howell  •  Richard Farrer  •  Ronald C. Griffin  •  Susan Hightower (Texas)  •  
Former Article III judges

Thomas Howard DuVal  •  Ezekiel Turner  •  Edward Prado  •  Emilio Garza  •  Thomas Sheldon Maxey  •  William Robert Smith  •  Walter Smith Jr.  •  Harry Hudspeth  •  Sam Sparks  •  Earl Yeakel  •  Philip Martinez  •  William Furgeson  •  DuVal West  •  Charles Albert Boynton  •  Robert Johnston McMillan  •  William Steele Sessions  •  Lucius Bunton  •  Hipolito Garcia  •  Ernest Guinn  •  Walter Keeling  •  Ben Rice  •  Jack Roberts (Texas)  •  Clyde Shannon  •  Adrian Spears (Texas district court judge)  •  Dorwin Suttle  •  Robert Thomason  •  William Thornberry  •  John Wood (Texas)  •  

Former Chief judges

Walter Smith Jr.  •  Harry Hudspeth  •  William Steele Sessions  •  Lucius Bunton  •  James Nowlin  •  Ben Rice  •  Jack Roberts (Texas)  •  Adrian Spears (Texas district court judge)  •  


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1982

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1983

Baldock •Barbour •Barry •Bowman •Carman •Carter •Curran •Davis •Dorsey •Feldman •Fish •Flaum •Gibbons •Hallanan •Harris •Hinojosa •Hull •Hupp •Katz •Keenan •Kelly •Kram •Laffitte •Limbaugh, Sr. •Limbaugh, Sr. •Milburn •Nesbitt •Nevas •O'Neill •Rymer •Sharp •Starr •Vinson •Vukasin •Wexler •

Woods
1984

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1985

Alley •Altimari •Anderson •Aquilino •Archer •Arnold •Baldock •Batchelder •Battey •Broomfield •Brown •Brown •Brunetti •Buckley •Cobb •Conmy •Cowen •Davidson •Dimmick •Duff •Easterbrook •Edgar •Farnan •Fernandez •Fitzpatrick •Fuste •Greene •Gunn •Guy •Hall •Hilton •Holderman •Hughes •Johnson •Jones •Korman •Kozinski •La Plata •Leinenweber •Letts •Lovell •Ludwig •Maloney •Mansmann •Marcus •McDonald •Meredith •Miller •Mills •Miner •Motz •Nelson •Noonan •Porfilio •Revercomb •Rhoades •Ripple •Rodriguez •Rosenbaum •Roth •Ryan •Sam •Scott •Sentelle •Silberman •Sporkin •Stanton •Stapleton •Strand •Strom •Tacha •Tevrizian •Thompson •Todd •Tsoucalas •Walker •Walter •Weber •Williams •Wilson •Wingate •Wolf •Wollman •Young •Zloch

1986

Anderson •Boggs •Bryan •Cedarbaum •Cholakis •Conway •Davies •Dearie •Dubina •Duggan •Edmondson •Fawsett •Fitzwater •Gex •Graham •Hackett •Hansen •Henderson •Hittner •Howard •Jensen •Kay •Kleinfeld •Kosik •Lagueux •Lechner •Magill •Mahoney •Manion •McAvoy •McQuade •Norris •O'Scannlain •Rehnquist •Ryskamp •Scalia •Selya •Simpson •Smalkin •Spencer •Stiehl •Wilkins •Williams •Woodlock •Zatkoff

1987

Alesia •Beam •Bell •Conboy •Cowen •Cummings •Daronco •Doty •Dwyer •Ebel •Ellis •Gadola •Gawthrop •Greenberg •Harrington •Howard •Hoyt •Hutchinson •Kanne •Kelly •Larimer •Leavy •Lew •Marsh •Mayer •McKinney •Michel •Mukasey •Musgrave •Niemeyer •Parker •Phillips •Politan •Pro •Raggi •Reasoner •Reed •Scirica •Sentelle •Smith •Smith •Stadtmueller •Standish •Tinder •Torres •Trott •Turner •Van Antwerpen •Voorhees •Webb •Whipple •Wolin •Wolle •Wood •Zagel

1988

Arcara •Babcock •Brorby •Butler •Cambridge •Camp •Conlon •Cox •Dubois •Duhe •Ezra •Forester •Friedman •Garza •Hutton •Jordan •Kennedy •Lake •Lamberth •Lifland •Lozano •Marovich •Nygaard •Patterson •Schell •Smith •Smith •Tilley •Waldman •Zilly

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2001

Armijo •Bates •Beistline •Blackburn •Bowdre •Bunning •Bury •Caldwell •Camp •Cassell •Cebull •Clement •Clifton •Crane •Eagan •Engelhardt •Friot •Gibbons •Granade •Gregory •Gritzner •Haddon •Hartz •Heaton •Hicks •Howard •Johnson •Jorgenson •Krieger •Land •Leon •Mahan •Martinez •Martone •McConnell •Melloy •Mills •O'Brien •Parker •Payne •Prost •Reeves •Riley •Robinson •Rogers •Royal •Shedd •B. Smith •L. Smith •Walton •Wooten •Zainey

2002

Africk •Anderson •Autrey •Baylson •Cercone •Chesler •Clark •Collyer •Conner •Conti •Corrigan •Davis •Davis •Dorr •England •Ericksen •Fuller •Gardner •Godbey •Griesbach •Hanen •Hovland •Hudson •Jones •Jordan •Kinkeade •Klausner •Kugler •Leighton •Linares •Moses •Marra •Martinez •Martini •Mays •McVerry •Phillips •Raggi •Reade •Rose •Rufe •Savage •Schwab •Smith •St. Eve •Walter •White •Wolfson

2003

Adams •Altonaga •Bea •Benitez •Bennett •Boyle •Brack •Breen •Browning •Burns •Bybee •Callahan •Campbell •Cardone •Carney •Castel •Chertoff •Cohn •Colloton •Conrad •Coogler •Cook •Cooke •Crone •Der-Yeghiayan •Drell •Duffey •Duncan •Erickson •Feuerstein •Figa •Filip •Fischer •Fisher •Flanagan •Floyd •Frost •Gibson •Greer •Gruender •Guirola •Hall •Hardiman •Hayes •Herrera •Hicks •Holmes •Holwell •Hopkins •Houston •Irizarry •Jones •Junell •Karas •Kravitz •Martinez •McKnight •Minaldi •Montalvo •Mosman •Otero •Pickering •Prado •Pratter •Proctor •Quarles •Robart •Roberts •Robinson •Rodgers •Rodriguez •Sabraw •Sanchez •Saylor •Selna •Sharpe •Simon •Springmann •Stanceu •Steele •Stengel •Suko •Sutton •Sykes •Titus •Townes •Tymkovich •Van Antwerpen •Varlan •Wake •Wesley •White •Woodcock •

Yeakel
2004

Alvarez •Benton •Boyko •Covington •Diamond •Harwell •Kelley •Schiavelli •Schneider •Starrett •Watson

2005

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2006

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2007

Anderson •Aycock •Bailey •Bryant •Davis •DeGiusti •Dow •Elrod •Fairbank •Fischer •Frizzell •Gutierrez •Hall •Hardiman •Haynes •Howard •Jarvey •Jones •Jonker •Kapala •Kays •Laplante •Limbaugh •Lioi •Livingston •Maloney •Mauskopf •Mendez •Miller •Neff •O'Connor •O'Grady •O'Neill •Osteen •Ozerden •Reidinger •Sammartino •Schroeder •Settle •Smith •Snow •Southwick •Suddaby •Sullivan •Thapar •Tinder •Van Bokkelen •Wood •Wright •Wu

2008

Agee •Anello •Arguello •Brimmer •Gardephe •Goldberg •Jones •Kethledge •Lawrence •Matsumoto •Melgren •Murphy •Scriven •Seibel •Slomsky •Trenga •Waddoups •White