Eugene Allen Wright

Nonpartisan

Prior offices:

United States Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit

Years in office: 1983 - 2002

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Years in office: 1969 - 1983

Personal

Birthplace

Seattle, WA

Eugene Allen Wright was a federal judge on theUnited States Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. Wright was born in Seattle, Washington on February 23, 1913 and died September 3, 2002 in the same location.^[1]

Federal Judicial Service

Nominated by Richard M. Nixon on June 23, 1969, to a new seat created by 82 Stat. 184; Confirmed by the Senate on September 12, 1969, and received commission onSeptember 15, 1969. Assumed senior status onSeptember 15, 1983. Service terminated onSeptember 3, 2002, due to death.^[1]

Education

• University of Washington, A.B., 1934
• University of Washington School of Law, J.D., 1937^[1]

Professional career

• U.S. Army Reserve Colonel, 1934-1965
• Active service, 1941-1946
• Private practice, Seattle, Washington, 1937-1941, 1946-1954
• Judge pro tem, Municipal Court, Seattle, Washington, 1948-1952
• Lecturer, University of Washington Law School, 1952-1974
• Judge, Washington Superior Court, King County, Washington, 1954-1966
• Lecturer, University of Washington School of Communications, 1965-1966
• Vice president and senior trust officer, Pacific National Bank of Seattle, Washington, 1966-1969^[1]

Footnotes

v • e Federal judges who have served theU.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Active judges	Chief Judge: Mary Murguia  •  Mark Bennett (Hawaii)  •  Kim McLane Wardlaw  •  Morgan Christen  •  Ronald Gould  •  Johnnie Rawlinson  •  Consuelo Maria Callahan  •  Milan Smith  •  Jacqueline Nguyen  •  Lucy H. Koh  •  Sal Mendoza, Jr.  •  John B. Owens  •  Michelle T. Friedland  •  Lawrence VanDyke  •  Bridget S. Bade  •  Danielle Forrest  •  Ryan Nelson (Idaho)  •  Eric Miller (Washington)  •  Patrick Bumatay  •  Daniel Collins (California)  •  Kenneth Kiyul Lee  •  Ana de Alba  •  Gabriel Sanchez (California)  •  Holly Thomas  •  Daniel Bress  •  Jennifer Sung  •  Roopali Desai  •  Anthony Johnstone  •  Eric Tung
Senior judges	Mary Schroeder  •  Andrew Hurwitz  •  Diarmuid O'Scannlain  •  Andrew Kleinfeld  •  Sidney Thomas  •  Barry Silverman  •  Susan Graber  •  Margaret McKeown (California)  •  William Fletcher (California)  •  Richard Paez  •  Marsha Berzon  •  Richard Tallman  •  Richard Clifton  •  Jay Bybee  •  Carlos Bea  •  Sandra Ikuta  •  Randy Smith (Federal appeals judge)  •  John Clifford Wallace  •  Dorothy Wright Nelson  •  William Canby  •  Stephen Trott  •  Ferdinand Francis Fernandez  •  Michael D. Hawkins  •  Atsushi Wallace Tashima  •
Former judges	Anthony Kennedy  •  Lorenzo Sawyer  •  Joseph McKenna (Supreme Court)  •  William Ball Gilbert  •  Erskine Mayo Ross  •  William Henry Hunt (U.S. 9th Circuit Court)  •  Wallace McCamant  •  Frank Sigel Dietrich  •  William Henry Sawtelle  •  Francis Arthur Garrecht  •  William Denman  •  Clifton Mathews  •  Bert Emory Haney  •  William Healy  •  Homer Bone  •  William Edwin Orr  •  Walter Pope  •  Dal Lemmon  •  Richard Harvey Chambers  •  Stanley Nelson Barnes  •  Oliver Hamlin  •  Gilbert Jertberg  •  Charles Merton Merrill  •  Montgomery Koelsch  •  Benjamin Duniway  •  Walter Raleigh Ely, Jr.  •  James Marshall Carter  •  Shirley Hufstedler  •  Eugene Allen Wright  •  John Francis Kilkenny  •  Ozell Trask  •  Herbert Choy  •  J. Blaine Anderson  •  Thomas Tang  •  Cecil Poole  •  William Albert Norris  •  Charles Edward Wiggins  •  Frederick Hamley  •  Alex Kozinski  •  Matthew Hall McAllister  •  William Morrow  •  Frank Rudkin  •  Harry Pregerson  •  Stephen Reinhardt  •  Pamela Rymer  •  Raymond Fisher  •  James R. Browning  •  Alfred Goodwin  •  Joseph Sneed  •  Procter Hug  •  Betty Binns Fletcher  •  Otto Skopil  •  Joseph Farris  •  Arthur Alarcon  •  Warren Ferguson  •  Robert Boochever  •  Cynthia Holcomb Hall  •  Robert Beezer  •  Melvin Brunetti  •  Edward Leavy  •  David R. Thompson (Federal judge)  •  Thomas G. Nelson (Federal judge)  •  Curtis Dwight Wilbur  •  Albert Lee Stephens, Sr.  •  Albert Lee Stephens, Jr.  •  William Orr (9th Circuit)  •  John Kilkenny  •  Paul Watford  •
Former Chief judges	William Denman  •  Walter Pope  •  Richard Harvey Chambers  •  Mary Schroeder  •  Sidney Thomas  •  James R. Browning  •  Alfred Goodwin  •  John Clifford Wallace  •  Procter Hug  •  Albert Lee Stephens, Sr.  •

v • e Federal judges nominated byRichard Nixon
1969	Adams •Barlow •Battin •Brooks •Burger •Carswell •Clark •Garth •Gibbons •Goodwin •Hannum •Herman •Ingraham •Kilkenny •Lane •Levin •MacKinnon •McFadden •Middlebrooks •Parker •Robb •Trask •Widener •Wilkins •Williams •Wright
1970	Becker •Blackmun •Bogue •Bratcher •Bue •Conti •Cox •Ditter •Dupree •Eisele •Engel •Fay •Feikens •Fisher •Frey •Gorbey •Hill •Huyett •Kelleher •Kennedy •Kent •King •Kitchen •Knapp •Knox •Krupansky •McCune •McGarr •McWilliams •Mechem •J. Miller •W. Miller •Morton •Moye •Muir •O'Kelley •Oakes •Pell •Pointer •Pratt •Roney •Rosenn •Ross •Schnacke •Scott •Stapleton •Steger •Stevens •Teitelbaum •Thompson •Tjoflat •Toledo •Turrentine •Urbom •VanArtsdalen •Walinski •Wallace •Wangelin •Webster •Weis •Wellford •Wilkey •Winner •Wood
1971	Alaimo •Allen •A. Anderson •J. Anderson •Barrett •Bauer •Bauman •Benson •Blair •Blatt •Boe •Brieant •Broderick •Bryan Jr. •Byrne •Campbell •Chapman •Choy •Contie •Costantino •DeMascio •Denney •Dier •Doyle •Field •Finesilver •Flannery •Freeman •Gagliardi •Goodwin •Gordon •Green •Gurfein •Hall •Hand •Hodges •Holden •Hunter •Kunzig •Lacey •Lucas •Lydick •Mansfield •McGovern •McLaren •McMillen •Mulligan •Murray •Neaher •Newcomer •Newman •Nielsen •O'Connor •Oakes •Pierce •Powell •Rehnquist •Renfrew •Richey •Rosen •Rubin •Russell •Scalera •Sharp •Sprecher •Stephenson •Stuart •Timbers •Tone •Sickle •Varner •R. West •Williams • Young
1972	Bechtle •Bennett •Burns •Campbell •Carter •Coffrin •Duffy •Enright •Foreman •Freedman •Griesa •Hermansdorfer •Joiner •Kashiwa •King •Knapp •Lively •Mahon •Markey •Neill •Owens •Pesquera •Roettger •Skopil, Jr. •Stewart •Tauro •Turk •Wallace •H. Ward •R. Ward •Widener
1973	Biunno •Conner •Engel •Fogel •Garth •Gee •Guin •Hancock •Harvey •Marshall •Miller •Nangle •Owen •Reed •Schatz •Sharp •Skinner •Sneed •Snyder •Stern •Webster •Weis •Wood
1974	Alsop •Duncan •Firth •Gurfein •Hill •Matsch •McGlynn •Meanor •Miles •Morris •Orrick •Platt •Porter •Schwartz •Stagg •Tone •Voorhees •Warren •Warriner •Werker