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Scott Coogler

Nonpartisan

Prior offices:

United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Years in office: 2003 - 2025

Predecessor:Dean Buttram Jr.

Successor:Edmund G. LaCour, Jr. (Nonpartisan)

Education

Bachelor's

University of Alabama, 1981

Law

University of Alabama School of Law, 1984

L. Scott Coogler was afederal judge on theUnited States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama. He joined the court in 2003 after being nominated by PresidentGeorge W. Bush (R). Coogler was the chief judge from 2020 to 2024. He retired from the court on January 2, 2025.^[1][2]

Early life and education

A native of Nantucket,Massachusetts, Coogler graduated from the University of Alabama with his bachelor's degree in 1981 and from the University of Alabama School of Law with hisJ.D. in 1984.^[1]

Military service

Coogler served as a reservist in the U.S. Army National Guard from 1988 to 1991.^[1]

Professional career

• 2003 - 2025: Judge,United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama
  • 2020 - 2024:Chief judge
• 1996-2003: Judge,Alabama Sixth Judicial Circuit
• 1984-1999: Private practice,Alabama
• 1984: Law clerk, Hon. Paul Conger, Alabama Sixth Judicial Circuit^[1]

Judicial career

Northern District of Alabama

Nomination Tracker
Nominee Information
Name: L. Scott Coogler
Court:United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama
Progress
Confirmed 56 days after nomination.
ANominated: March 27, 2003
AABA Rating:Unanimously Qualified
Questionnaire:
AHearing: May 7, 2003
Hearing Transcript:Hearing Transcript
QFRs:(Hover over QFRs to read more)
AReported: May 15, 2003
AConfirmed: May 22, 2003
AVote: Voice vote

Coogler was nominated by PresidentGeorge W. Bush (R) on March 27, 2003, to a seat on theUnited States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama vacated byDean Buttram Jr.

TheAmerican Bar Association unanimously rated Cooglerqualified for the nomination.^[3]

Hearings on Coogler's nomination were held before theSenate Judiciary Committee on May 7, 2003, and his nomination was reported by U.S. Sen.Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) on May 15, 2003. Coogler was confirmed on a voice vote of theU.S. Senate on May 22, 2003, and he received his commission on May 28, 2003.^[1][4]

Coogler becamechief judge of the district court in 2020.^[1]

Coogler retired on January 2, 2025.^[2]

See also

• United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama
• United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit

External links

Suggest a link

• Search Google News for this topic
• Judge Coogler's biography from theFederal Judicial Center

Footnotes

v • e Federal judges who have served theUnited States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama
Active judges	Chief Judge: Madeline Haikala  •  Liles Burke  •  Annemarie Carney Axon  •  Corey Maze  •  Anna Manasco  •  Edmund LaCour  •  Harold Mooty
Senior judges	Sharon Blackburn  •  Charles Smith (Alabama)  •  Inge Johnson  •  Karon Bowdre  •  David Proctor  •  Virginia Hopkins  •
Magistrate judges	John H. England  •  Staci G. Cornelius  •  Gray M. Borden  •  Herman Johnson  •  Nicholas Danella  •
Former Article III judges	James Hancock  •  Robert Propst  •  William Acker  •  U. W. Clemon  •  Scott Coogler  •  William Crawford (Alabama)  •  Charles Tait  •  John Gayle  •  William Giles Jones  •  Richard Busteed  •  George Washington Lane  •  John Bruce  •  Oscar Richard Hundley  •  Thomas Goode Jones (Alabama)  •  William Irwin Grubb  •  Henry De Lamar Clayton  •  Charles Brents Kennamer  •  David Jackson Davis (United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama judge)  •  Thomas Murphree  •  Clarence Allgood  •  Harlan Grooms  •  Elbert Haltom  •  Seybourn Lynne  •  Frank McFadden  •  Clarence Mullins  •  Edwin Nelson  •  Sam Pointer  •  Frank Hampton McFadden  •  Abdul Kallon  •  Dean Buttram Jr.  •
Former Chief judges	U. W. Clemon  •  Karon Bowdre  •  Scott Coogler  •  David Proctor  •  Seybourn Lynne  •  Frank McFadden  •  Clarence Mullins  •  Sam Pointer  •

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