Robert Potter

Nonpartisan

Prior offices:

United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina

Years in office: 1994 - 2009

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Years in office: 1981 - 1994

Education

Bachelor's

Duke University, 1947

Law

Duke University School of Law, 1950

Personal

Birthplace

Wilmington, NC

Robert Daniel Potter (1923-present) is afederal judge on theUnited States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina. He was nominated by PresidentRonald Reagan on October 1, 1981. He assumed senior status in May 1994 and served in that capacity until his death on July 2, 2009.^[1]

Education

• Duke University, A.B., 1947
• Duke University School of Law, LL.B., 1950^[1]

Military service

Potter served in the United States Army from 1944 to 1947.^[1]

Professional career

Potter was in private practice from 1951 to 1981. He served as a commissioner forMecklenburg County, North Carolina from 1966 to 1968.^[1]

Judicial career

Western District of North Carolina

Potter was nominated by PresidentRonald Reagan on October 1, 1981, to a new seat created by 92 Stat. 1629. He was confirmed by the Senate on October 29, 1981, and received commission thatsame day. He served aschief judge from 1984-1991, and assumedsenior status onMay 1, 1994.^[1] Judge Potter's service was terminated on July 2, 2009, due to his death.^[1] Potter was succeeded in this position by JudgeLacy Thornburg.

See also

• Federal judges nominated by Ronald Reagan

External links

• Judge Potter's Biography from theFederal Judicial Center

Footnotes

v • e Federal judges who have served theUnited States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina
Active judges	Chief Judge: Martin Reidinger  •  Max O. Cogburn, Jr.  •  Kenneth Bell (North Carolina)  •  Matthew Orso  •  Susan Rodriguez
Senior judges	Robert Conrad  •  Graham Mullen  •  Frank Whitney  •  Richard Voorhees  •
Magistrate judges	David Keesler  •  W. Carleton Metcalf  •
Former Article III judges	Robert Paine Dick  •  James Edmund Boyd  •  Hamilton Glover Ewart  •  Lacy Thornburg  •  Edwin Yates Webb  •  James Craven  •  David Ezekiel Henderson (Federal judge)  •  Woodrow Jones  •  Harold Brent McKnight  •  James McMillan  •  Wilson Warlick  •  Robert Potter  •
Former Chief judges	Graham Mullen  •  Richard Voorhees  •  James Craven  •  Woodrow Jones  •  Wilson Warlick  •  Robert Potter  •

v • e Federal judges nominated byRonald Reagan
1981	Bartlett •Beam •Becker •Bork •Cacheris •Cardamone •Chapman •Coughenour •Cox •Crow •Cyr •Doumar •Eschbach •Forrester •Garwood •Gibson •Glasser •Hall •Hamilton •Head •Jones •Kiser •Krenzler •Lee •Magnuson •McLaughlin •Miner •Moore •Nowlin •O'Connor •Pierce •Posner •Potter •Russell •Ryan •Shabaz •Sprizzo •Stevens •Waters •Wilhoit •Wilkins •Winter
1982	Acker •Acosta •Altimari •Bell •Bissell •Black •Bullock •Caldwell •Coffey •Contie •Coyle •Dowd •Fagg •Fong •Fox •Gadbois •Gibson •Ginsburg •Hart •Higginbotham •Hogan •Irving •Jackson •Jolly •Kanne •Kovachevich •Krupansky •Lynch •Mansmann •McNamara •Mencer •Mentz •Mihm •Moody •Nordberg •Paul •Pieras •Plunkett •Porfilio •Potter •Pratt •Rafeedie •Restani •Roberts •Scalia •Selya •Telesca •Wellford
1983	Baldock •Barbour •Barry •Bowman •Carman •Carter •Curran •Davis •Dorsey •Feldman •Fish •Flaum •Gibbons •Hallanan •Harris •Hinojosa •Hull •Hupp •Katz •Keenan •Kelly •Kram •Laffitte •Limbaugh, Sr. •Limbaugh, Sr. •Milburn •Nesbitt •Nevas •O'Neill •Rymer •Sharp •Starr •Vinson •Vukasin •Wexler • Woods
1984	Barker •Beezer •Biggers •Billings •Bissell •Boyle •Brewster •Browning •DiCarlo •Duhe •Garcia •George •Hall •Hargrove •Higgins •Hill •Holland •Ideman •Jarvis •Keller •Leavy •Lee •Legge •Leisure •Little •Livaudais •Longobardi •McKibben •Milburn •Newman •Norgle •Prado •Rea •Rosenblatt •Rovner •Scirica •Smith, Jr. •Sneeden •Stotler •Suhrheinrich •Torruella •Wiggins •Wilkinson
1985	Alley •Altimari •Anderson •Aquilino •Archer •Arnold •Baldock •Batchelder •Battey •Broomfield •Brown •Brown •Brunetti •Buckley •Cobb •Conmy •Cowen •Davidson •Dimmick •Duff •Easterbrook •Edgar •Farnan •Fernandez •Fitzpatrick •Fuste •Greene •Gunn •Guy •Hall •Hilton •Holderman •Hughes •Johnson •Jones •Korman •Kozinski •La Plata •Leinenweber •Letts •Lovell •Ludwig •Maloney •Mansmann •Marcus •McDonald •Meredith •Miller •Mills •Miner •Motz •Nelson •Noonan •Porfilio •Revercomb •Rhoades •Ripple •Rodriguez •Rosenbaum •Roth •Ryan •Sam •Scott •Sentelle •Silberman •Sporkin •Stanton •Stapleton •Strand •Strom •Tacha •Tevrizian •Thompson •Todd •Tsoucalas •Walker •Walter •Weber •Williams •Wilson •Wingate •Wolf •Wollman •Young •Zloch
1986	Anderson •Boggs •Bryan •Cedarbaum •Cholakis •Conway •Davies •Dearie •Dubina •Duggan •Edmondson •Fawsett •Fitzwater •Gex •Graham •Hackett •Hansen •Henderson •Hittner •Howard •Jensen •Kay •Kleinfeld •Kosik •Lagueux •Lechner •Magill •Mahoney •Manion •McAvoy •McQuade •Norris •O'Scannlain •Rehnquist •Ryskamp •Scalia •Selya •Simpson •Smalkin •Spencer •Stiehl •Wilkins •Williams •Woodlock •Zatkoff
1987	Alesia •Beam •Bell •Conboy •Cowen •Cummings •Daronco •Doty •Dwyer •Ebel •Ellis •Gadola •Gawthrop •Greenberg •Harrington •Howard •Hoyt •Hutchinson •Kanne •Kelly •Larimer •Leavy •Lew •Marsh •Mayer •McKinney •Michel •Mukasey •Musgrave •Niemeyer •Parker •Phillips •Politan •Pro •Raggi •Reasoner •Reed •Scirica •Sentelle • Smith •Smith •Stadtmueller •Standish •Tinder •Torres •Trott •Turner •Van Antwerpen •Voorhees •Webb •Whipple •Wolin •Wolle •Wood •Zagel
1988	Arcara •Babcock •Brorby •Butler •Cambridge •Camp •Conlon •Cox •Dubois •Duhe •Ezra •Forester •Friedman •Garza •Hutton •Jordan •Kennedy •Lake •Lamberth •Lifland •Lozano •Marovich •Nygaard •Patterson •Schell •Smith •Smith •Tilley •Waldman •Zilly