Rufus Edward Foster

Nonpartisan

Prior offices:

United States Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit

Years in office: 1925 - 1942

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United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Years in office: 1909 - 1925

Education

Law

Tulane Law School, 1895

Personal

Birthplace

Virginia

Rufus Edward Foster (1871-1942) was afederal judge on theUnited States Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit and theUnited States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana.

Early life and education

• Tulane Law School, LL.B., 1895^[1]

Professional career

• U.S. Army Lieutenant, 1898-1899
• Assistant U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana, 1905-1908
• U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana, 1908
• Professor of law, Tulane University, 1912-1927
• Dean, Tulane Law School, 1920-1927^[1]

Judicial career

Fifth Circuit

Foster was nominated to the Fifth Circuit by PresidentCalvin Coolidge on January 3, 1925 to fill a seat vacated byAlexander Campbell King. He was confirmed by the Senate onJanuary 13, 1925, and received commission that same day. He served until his death onAugust 23, 1942.^[1]

Eastern District of Louisiana

Foster was nominated to the Eastern District of Louisiana by PresidentTheodore Roosevelt on January 22, 1909 to fill a seat vacated byEugene Davis Saunders. He was confirmed by the Senate onFebruary 2, 1909, and received commission that same day. He served on this court untilJanuary 13, 1925.^[1] Foster was succeeded in this position byCharlton Reid Beattie.

See also

• United States Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit
• United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

External links

• Judge Foster's Biography from theFederal Judicial Center

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 who have served theUnited States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana
Active judges	Chief Judge: Wendy Vitter  •  Greg Guidry  •  Jay Zainey  •  Jane Triche-Milazzo  •  Nannette Jolivette Brown  •  Susie Morgan  •  William J. Crain  •  Barry Ashe  •  Darrel Papillion  •  Brandon Long (Louisiana)
Senior judges	Sarah Vance (Louisiana)  •  Eldon Fallon  •  Mary Ann Lemmon  •  Ivan Lemelle  •  Carl Barbier  •  Lance Africk  •
Magistrate judges	Karen Wells Roby  •  Michael B. North  •  Janis van Meerveld  •  Donna Phillips Currault  •
Former Article III judges	Thomas Porteous  •  John Dick  •  Thomas Bolling Robertson  •  Samuel Hadden Harper  •  Philip Kissick Lawrence  •  Theodore Howard McCaleb  •  Edward Henry Durell  •  Edward Coke Billings  •  Edith Clement  •  Alvin Rubin  •  Charles Parlange  •  Rufus Edward Foster  •  Eugene Davis Saunders  •  Helen Berrigan  •  Martin Feldman  •  Frederick Heebe  •  A.J. McNamara  •  Kurt Engelhardt  •  Charles Schwartz  •  Peter Beer  •  Marcel Livaudais  •  Charlton Reid Beattie  •  Wayne Borah  •  Louis Henry Burns  •  Robert Ainsworth  •  George Arceneaux  •  Edward Boyle  •  Adrian Caillouet  •  Patrick Carr (Louisiana)  •  Fred Cassibry  •  Herbert Christenberry  •  Robert Collins  •  James Comiskey  •  Adrian Duplantier  •  Frank Ellis  •  Jack M. Gordon  •  Okla Jones  •  Henry Mentz  •  Lansing Mitchell  •  Morey Sear  •  Elmer West  •  Roger West (Louisiana)  •  Veronica Wicker  •  James Wright (Louisiana)  •
Former Chief judges	Edith Clement  •  Helen Berrigan  •  Sarah Vance (Louisiana)  •  Frederick Heebe  •  A.J. McNamara  •  Herbert Christenberry  •  Morey Sear  •  Elmer West  •  Nannette Jolivette Brown  •

v • e Federal judges nominated byTheodore Roosevelt
1901	Baker •Jones •McDowell
1902	Anderson •Burns •Coxe •Gould •Hale •Holmes •Platt •Ray •Townsend •Waite
1903	Clabaugh •Day •Hay •Holt •Hook •McClelland •Morris •Pollock •Pritchard •Richards •Van Devanter •Daniel Wright • Francis Wright
1904	Duell •Holland •Hunt •Lanning •Reed •Shepard •Stafford
1905	Adams •Atkinson •Barney •Bethea •Booth •Cross •Dayton •Dodge •Finkelnburg •Kohlsaat •Landis •Lowell •McCall •McComas •Quarles •Sanborn •Seaman •Tayler •Whitson •Wolverton •Wright
1906	Buffington •Chatfield •Ewing •Farrington •Hough •Knappen •Lewis •Martin •Moody •Peelle •Robb
1907	Campbell •Cotteral •Dietrich •Dyer •Hundley •Munger •NoyesSaunders •Sheppard •Van Fleet •Van Orsdel •Ward
1908	Chamberlain •Purdy •Sanford •Sater •Young
1909	Foster

v • e Federal judges nominated byCalvin Coolidge
1923	Cochran
1924	Boynton •Davis •Dawkins, Sr. •Graham •Hand •Jones •Kennamer •Kerrigan •Martin •McCormick •Moorman •Pray •Young
1925	A. Anderson •H. Anderson •Baltzell •Beattie •Booth •Burns •Clark •Dawson •Foster •Henning •Hough •Johnson •McCamant •Meekins •Molyneaux •Moorman •Moscowitz •Otis •Parker •Raymond •Sanborn •Slick •St. Sure •Stone •Thacher • Van Valkenburgh
1926	Cavanah •Dietrich •Moss •Swan •Tilson
1927	Adler •Bryant •F. Coleman •W. Coleman •Hand •Hayes •Kirkpatrick •Letts •McNary •Moinet •Northcott •Tilson •Wham
1928	Borah •Burrows •Cline •Cotteral •Deaver •Dewey •Gordon •Green •Hahn •Hickenlooper •Hicks •Louderback •Martineau •McCarthy •McDermott •McVicar •Norcross •Sinnott •Taylor •Tilson •Vaught •West
1929	Akerman •Chase •Cox •Fake •Garrett •Nevin •Ritter •Woodward