Harold Montelle Stephens

Nonpartisan

Prior offices:

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

Years in office: 1935 - 1948

Education

Bachelor's

Cornell University, 1909

Law

Harvard Law, 1913

Graduate

Harvard Law, 1932

Personal

Birthplace

Crete, NE

Harold Montelle Stephens (1886-1955) was afederal judge on theUnited States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

He was nominated by PresidentFranklin Delano Roosevelt on July 23, 1935 to replaceWilliam Hitz. He was confirmed by the Senate on July 24th, and received commission onJuly 27th. He served in this position untilMarch 9, 1948.

On February 2, 1948, he was nominated by PresidentHarry Truman to the position of Chief Justice of theUnited States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit replacingDuncan Lawrence Groner. He was confirmed by the Senate on March 2nd, and received commission onMarch 5th. He held this position untilSeptember 1, 1948, when he was reassigned to his previous position as a judge on the same court. From 1948 to 1955, he was thechief judge. He served until his death onMay 28, 1955.^[1]

Education

• University of California
• Cornell University, A.B., 1909
• Harvard Law School, LL.B., 1913
• Harvard Law School, 1932, S.J.D.^[1]

Professional career

• Private practice, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1912-
• Assistant prosecuting attorney, Salt Lake County, Utah, 1915-1917
• Judge, Third Judicial District Court of Utah, 1917-1921
• Private practice, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1921-1928
• Private practice, Los Angeles, California, 1928
• Assistant U.S. attorney general, Antitrust Division, Washington, D.C., 1933-1935
• Assistant to the attorney general, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., 1935^[1]

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 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