John Brown

Prior offices:

United States Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit

Years in office: 1984 - 1993

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Years in office: 1955 - 1984

Education

Bachelor's

George Washington University Law Center, 1939

Personal

Birthplace

Funk, NE

This page is about the former U.S. Appellate Judge for theFifth Circuit. For people with a similar name, seeJohn Brown.

John Robert Brown (1909-1993) was afederal judge for theUnited States Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit.

Brown was nominated by PresidentDwight Eisenhower on April 25, 1955, to a seat vacated byRobert Lee Russell; he was confirmed by the Senate on July 22, 1955, and received his commission onJuly 27th. He served aschief judge from 1967-1979. He assumedsenior status onJuly 20, 1984, and served in that capacity until his death onJanuary 23, 1993.^[1]

A 1964 Time Magazine article on theFifth Circuit titled "The Fascinating & Frenetic Fifth" gave this profile of Brown:

John R. Brown, 54, a native Nebraskan, who began practicing admiralty law in Houston in 1932. Also an Ike appointee (1955), Brown proved to be a surprisingly adept constitutional lawyer and such a firm believer in such things as jury duty that in 1960 he refused exemption from duty in a state court. Houston lawyers wryly rejected him because "a federal judge's idea of the requirements for a search warrant is a little different from ours."^[2]

Education

• University of Nebraska, A.B., 1930
• University of Michigan Law School, J.D., 1932^[1]

Professional career

• U.S. Army Major, 1942-1946
• Private practice, Houston and Galveston, Texas, 1932-1955^[1]

Footnotes

v • e Federal judges who have served theU.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Active judges	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  •  Edith Clement  •  Fortunato Benavides  •  Jacques Wiener  •  W. Eugene Davis  •  Grady Jolly  •  Rhesa Barksdale  •
Former judges	John Minor Wisdom  •  Edward Harris  •  Peter Fay  •  John Godbold  •  Robert Lanier Anderson  •  Phyllis Kravitch  •  Gerald Tjoflat  •  Joseph Hatchett  •  Albert Henderson  •  Paul Roney  •  David Dyer  •  Elbert Tuttle  •  Thomas Clark (Eleventh Circuit)  •  Richard Rives  •  Robert Vance  •  Lewis Morgan  •  James Hill (Federal judge)  •  Andrew Phelps McCormick  •  Don Albert Pardee  •  Thomas Reavley  •  John Duhe  •  Harold DeMoss  •  Edward Prado  •  Robert Madden Hill  •  Alvin Rubin  •  Henry Politz  •  Reynaldo Garza  •  Albert Tate, Jr.  •  Jerre Williams  •  Robert Parker  •  Charles Pickering  •  David Davie Shelby  •  Rufus Edward Foster  •  Robert Lynn Batts  •  Nathan Philemon Bryan  •  Edwin Ruthven Holmes  •  Joseph Chappell Hutcheson Jr.  •  Alexander Campbell King  •  Samuel Hale Sibley  •  Claude Feemster Clayton  •  Richard Wilde Walker  •  Wayne Borah  •  Louie Willard Strum  •  Irving Goldberg  •  Leon McCord  •  Warren Leroy Jones  •  Robert Ainsworth  •  Joe Ingraham  •  William Thornberry  •  George Carswell  •  Curtis Waller  •  Griffin Bell  •  John Robert Brown (Federal judge)  •  Benjamin Cameron  •  James Coleman (federal judge)  •  Thomas Gee  •  Walter Gewin  •  Samuel Johnson  •  Elmo Lee  •  John Bryan Simpson  •  Frank M. Johnson, Jr.  •  Charles Clark (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit)  •  Robert Lee Russell (Federal judge)  •  Gregg Costa  •
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)  •

v • e Federal judges nominated byDwight Eisenhower
1953	Boldt •Bruchhausen •Cecil •Dawkins, Jr. •Grooms •Hamlin •Hoffman •Knoch •Schnackenberg •Warren •Willson
1954	Aldrich •Anderson •Bastian •Bicks •Bootle •Boreman •Breitenstein •Brooks •Cecil •Chambers •Choate •Christensen •Connell •Danaher •Dawson •Day •Fee •Freeman •Halbert •Harlan •Hincks •Hoffman •Holder •Hunter •Ingraham •Laramore •Kent •Lemmon •Lord •McGarraghy •Mickelson •Miller •Palmieri •Parkinson •Rogers •Ross •Stewart •Taylor •Thomsen •Tuttle •Van Oosterhout •Vogel •Walsh •Whittaker •Wilson
1955	Alger •Brown •Cameron •Clarke •Davies •Devitt •East •Estes •Grubb •Harlan •Jertberg •Jones •Lumbard •McIlvaine •Miller •Register •Sorg •Van Dusen •Waterman •Watkins •Wortendyke • Wright
1956	Barnes •Bryan •Burger •Cashin •Hamley •Herlands •Johnson •Juergens •Kerr •Kraft •Levet •Lewis •Lieb •Mercer •Morgan •Rich •Rizley •Robinson •Smith •Sobeloff •Weick •Whittaker
1957	Arraj •Breitenstein •Brennan •Egan •Gignoux •Grant •Hastings •Haynsworth •Hicklin •Jameson •Layton •Moore •O'Sullivan •Parkinson •Richardson •Sirica •Stanley •Thompson •Van Pelt •Weber •Whittaker •Wisdom •Zavatt
1958	Beck •Burke •Carswell •Clayton •Hamlin •Henley •Jertberg •Knoch •Martin •Matthes •Miner •Morrill •Poos •Robson •Stanley •Steel •Stewart •Wollenberg
1959	Aldrich •Bartels •Blackmun •Boreman •Butler •Castle •Cecil •Crocker •Dalton •Field •Fisher •Forman •Friendly •Hart •Henderson •Henley •Julian •Kalbfleisch •Kilkenny •Koelsch •Kunzel •MacMahon •Merrill •Metzner •Powell •Smith •Sweigert •Walsh •Weick •Weinman •Wood •Worley •Young
1960	Caffrey •Chilson •Durfee •Hodge •Kaess •Lane •Lewis •Mishler •O'Sullivan •Paul •Smith •Stephenson •Tavares •Timbers