Joseph Sneed
Joseph Tyree Sneed III (b. July 21, 1920 d. February 9, 2008) was a federal judge on theUnited States Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. He was appointed to the court in July 1973 byRichard M. Nixon after serving for six months as Deputy Attorney General in theDepartment of Justice.[1]
Education
- Southwestern University, B.B.A., 1941
- University of Texas School of Law, LL.B., 1947
- Harvard Law School, S.J.D., 1958[1]
Professional career
- U.S. Army Air Corps Staff Sergeant, 1942-1946
- Faculty, University of Texas Law School, 1947-1957
- Assistant professor, 1947-1951
- Associate professor, 1951-1954
- Professor, 1954-1957
- Private practice, Austin, Texas, 1954-1956
- Professor of law, Cornell University, 1957-1962
- Professor of law, Stanford University, 1962-1971
- Dean, professor of law, Duke University, 1971-1973
- Deputy attorney general of the United States, 1973[1]
Federal judicial career
Judge Sneed was nominated to theNinth Circuit on July 25, 1973 byRichard M. Nixon, to the seat vacated byFrederick G. Hamley. He was confirmed by the Senate on August 3, 1973, and commissioned onAugust 24, 1973. He assumedsenior status onJuly 21, 1987, and his service terminated onFebruary 9, 2008, due to death.[1] In his rulings, Sneed said he sought a fair remedy, one that "harmonizes all the notes sounded in the interpretive symphony. Some notes in the symphony, however, should be played very softly, if at all. Those are the notes that sound in distributive justice," he wrote, according to the Washington Post.[2]
Former law clerk,Nancy Rapoport, recalled:
| “ | Even though he was a Nixon appointee and I was much more liberal than he, he always impressed me as being very willing to do whatever the law actually mandated (more so than some of the more liberal judges on the court, who were known for bending the law to suit their own purposes) -- in that sense, I always thought of him as a true conservative.[3] | ” |
Sneed supervised U.S. marshals and FBI agents during the 71-day occupation of Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota in 1973. He also served on the judicial panel that appointed Kenneth Starr to investigateBill Clinton for Clinton's financial investments in Whitewater.[2]
See also
Footnotes
- ↑1.01.11.21.3Sneed Biography from theFederal Judicial Center
- ↑2.02.1San Francisco Chronicle, "Joseph Sneed dies - longtime 9th Circuit judge," February 14, 2008
- ↑Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑Nancy Rapoport's Blogspot, Judge Joseph T. Sneed III blog
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