Frank Picard

Nonpartisan

Prior offices:

United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Years in office: 1959 - 1963

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Years in office: 1939 - 1959

Education

Law

University of Michigan Law School, 1912

Personal

Birthplace

Saginaw, MI

Frank Albert Picard (1889-1963) was afederal judge on theUnited States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.

He was nominated by PresidentFranklin D. Roosevelt on February 9, 1939 to a seat created by 52 Stat. 584. He was confirmed by the Senate on February 16th, and received commission onFebruary 23rd. In 1959, he was thechief judge. Then, onMarch 31, 1959, he assumedsenior status, serving in this capacity until his death onFebruary 28, 1963.^[1]

Early life and education

• University of Michigan Law School,LL.B, 1912^[1]

Professional career

• Assistant prosecuting attorney, Saginaw County,Michigan, 1913
• Private practice, Saginaw,Michigan, 1913-1917
• U.S. Army Captain, 1917-1919
• Private practice, Saginaw,Michigan, 1919-1939
• City attorney, Saginaw,Michigan, 1924-1928
• Candidate for U.S. Senate fromMichigan, 1934^[1]

Judicial nominations and appointments

Eastern District of Michigan

Picard was nominated by PresidentFranklin D. Roosevelt on February 9, 1939 to a seat created by 52 Stat. 584. He was confirmed by the Senate on February 16th, and received commission onFebruary 23rd. In 1959, he was thechief judge. Then, onMarch 31, 1959, he assumedsenior status, serving in this capacity until his death onFebruary 28, 1963.^[1]

External links

• Frank Picard's Biography from theFederal Judicial Center

Footnotes

v • e Federal judges nominated byFranklin Delano Roosevelt (1933-1940)
1933	Bell •Bratton •Donohoe •FitzHenry •Garrecht •Keefe •Ragon •Stone •Woodrough
1934	Allen •Bowen •Holly •Hulbert •Long •Major •Myers •Rippey •Sullivan
1935	Baldwin •Denman •Faris •Ford •Hamilton •Haney •Holmes •Mahoney •Martin •Mathews •McDuffie •Moore •Roche •A. L. Stephens •H. M. Stephens •Sweeney • Yankwich
1936	Abruzzo •Clancy •Davidson •Davis •Holland •Lederle •Leibell •Ling •Mandelbaum •Maris •Pollard •Thomas •Underwood
1937	Adair •Biggs •Black •Burke •Collet •Druffel •Edgerton •Groner •Healy •Jackson •Jenney •Kloeb •Major •McColloch •Miller •Mize •Murrah •Rice •Stephens •Sullivan •Swinford •Treanor •Trimble •Vinson •Watkins •Williams •Wyche
1938	Clark •Conger •Ford •Hamilton •Laws •Maris •McCord •Murphree •Reed
1939	Allred •Arant •Beaumont •Biddle •Black •Clark •Darr •Davies •Dobie •Douglas •Duffy •Frankfurter •Goldsborough •Huxman •Igoe •Jones •Kalodner •Kerner, Sr. •Lemley •Lumpkin •Magruder •Miller •Morris •Picard •Porterie •Roberts •Rutledge •Walker •Welsh •Whaley •Whitaker •Wilkin
1940	Bard •Barker •Barksdale •Boyd •Broaddus •Caillouet •Campbell •Dobie •Ganey •Goodrich •Harrison •Hartigan •Johnsen •Jones •Leamy •Mahoney •Martin •Murphy •Murrah •O'Connor •Oliver •Pine •Russell •Savage •Schwellenbach •Walker •Waller

v • e Federal judges nominated byFranklin Delano Roosevelt (1941-1945)
1941	Bright •Byrnes •Eicher •Frank •Freed •Healey •Jackson •Leahy •Leavy •Lovett •Madden •McAllister •McGuire •Miller •Minton •Moore •Riddick •Rifkind •J. Smith •W. Smith •Stone •Timmerman •Vogel •Waring •Woodbury •Wyzanski
1942	Brennan •Cole •Delehant •Ekwall •Goodman •Hall •Hannay •Keeling •Meaney
1943	Arnold •Chandler •Clark •Duncan •Helvering •Hulen •Lawrence •Lee •McLaughlin •Mullins •Rutledge •Swygert • Waller
1944	Bone •Connor •Graven •Hutcheson •Kennedy •LaBuy •O'Connell •Schweinhaut •Shaw
1945	Brown •Davis •Foley •Laws •Ridge

v • e Federal judges who have served theUnited States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
Active judges	•  Thomas Ludington  •  Mark Goldsmith  •  Stephen Murphy (Michigan)  •  Shalina Kumar  •  Linda V. Parker  •  Laurie Michelson  •  Terrence Berg  •  Judith Ellen Levy  •  Matthew Frederick Leitman  •  Jonathan Grey  •  Frances Kay Behm  •  Susan DeClercq  •  Brandy McMillion  •  Robert White (Michigan)
Senior judges	Bernard Friedman  •  Paul Borman  •  Robert Cleland  •  Nancy Edmunds  •  Denise Hood  •  David M. Lawson  •  John O'Meara (Michigan)  •  George Steeh  •  Gershwin Drain  •
Magistrate judges	David Grand  •  Patricia T. Morris  •  Anthony Patti  •  Elizabeth Stafford  •  Kimberly Altman  •  Curtis Ivy Jr.  •
Former Article III judges	Damon Keith  •  Victoria Roberts  •  Marianne Battani  •  Anna Taylor  •  Avern Cohn  •  Sean Cox (Michigan)  •  Patrick Duggan  •  John Feikens  •  Paul Gadola  •  Arthur Tarnow  •  Lawrence Zatkoff  •  Cornelia Kennedy  •  Ralph Guy  •  Richard Suhrheinrich  •  Horace Gilmore  •  Stewart Newblatt  •  Ross Wilkins  •  Barbara Hackett  •  Russell Harvey (Michigan)  •  George La Plata  •  Henry Billings Brown (U.S. Supreme Court)  •  John Wesley Longyear  •  Henry Harrison Swan  •  Alexis Caswell Angell  •  Arthur Tuttle  •  Charles Casper Simons  •  Edward Julien Moinet  •  Ernest Aloysius O'Brien  •  Arthur Lederle  •  Frank Picard  •  Wade Hampton McCree, Jr.  •  James Churchill  •  Mona Majzoub  •  Patricia Boyle  •  Robert DeMascio  •  Ralph Freeman  •  Lawrence Gubow  •  Frederick Kaess  •  Arthur Koscinski  •  Theodore Levin (Michigan)  •  Thaddeus Machrowicz  •  Clifford O'Sullivan  •  Philip Pratt (Michigan)  •  Stephen Roth (Michigan)  •  Talbot Smith  •  Thomas Thornton  •  George Woods (federal judge)  •  Stephanie Dawkins Davis  •
Former Chief judges	Damon Keith  •  Bernard Friedman  •  Anna Taylor  •  Julian Cook  •  Sean Cox (Michigan)  •  John Feikens  •  Lawrence Zatkoff  •  Cornelia Kennedy  •  Arthur Lederle  •  Frank Picard  •  James Churchill  •  Ralph Freeman  •  Frederick Kaess  •  Theodore Levin (Michigan)  •  Philip Pratt (Michigan)  •