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Henry Woods

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Prior offices

United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Education

Personal


Henry Woods was a federal judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas.[1]

Jimmy Carter nominated Woods on December 14, 1979, to a new seat created by 92 Stat. 1629. He was confirmed by the Senate on February 20, 1980, and received commission on February 20, 1980. Woods assumed senior status on March 1, 1995. His service terminated on March 14, 2002 when he died. Woods was succeeded in this position by James M. Moody Sr..

Early life and education

  • University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, B.A., 1938
  • University of Arkansas School of Law, J.D., 1940

Professional career

  • Special agent, FBI, 1941-1946
  • Private practice, Texarkana, Arkansas, 1946-1948
  • Referee in Bankruptcy, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas, 1946-1947
  • Executive secretary, Governor of Arkansas, 1949-1953
  • Private practice, Little Rock, Arkansas, 1953-1980
  • Special associate justice, Arkansas Supreme Court, 1967-1974

Judicial nominations and appointments

Eastern District of Arkansas

Jimmy Carter nominated Woods on December 14, 1979, to a new seat created by 92 Stat. 1629. He was confirmed by the Senate on February 20, 1980, and received commission on February 20, 1980. Woods assumed senior status on March 1, 1995. His service terminated on March 14, 2002 when he died. Woods was succeeded in this position by James M. Moody Sr..

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Footnotes

Political offices
Preceded by:
NA-New Seat 		Eastern District of Arkansas
1980-1995
Seat #6 		Succeeded by:
James M. Moody Sr.

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Federal judges who have served the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas
Active judges

Chief Judge: Brian Miller (Arkansas)Chief Judge: Kristine Gerhard Baker   •  D.P. Marshall Jr.  •  James Moody Jr. (Arkansas federal court judge)  •  Lee Rudofsky

Senior judges

William Wilson (Arkansas)  •  Susan Webber Wright  •  

Magistrate judges J. Thomas Ray  •  Jerome Kearney  •  Joe J. Volpe  •  Patricia S. Harris  •  Edie Ervin  •  
Former Article III judges

J. Leon Holmes  •  Garnett Eisele  •  James M. Moody Sr. (Arkansas federal judge)  •  Henry Woods  •  William Overton  •  Richard Arnold (Arkansas)  •  Terry Shell  •  Daniel Ringo  •  Henry Clay Caldwell  •  John Williams (Arkansas)  •  Jacob Trieber  •  John Ellis Martineau  •  Thomas Trimble  •  Harry Lemley  •  Oren Harris  •  Jesse Henley  •  George Howard  •  Elsijane Roy  •  Stephen Reasoner  •  Gordon Young  •  

Former Chief judges

Garnett Eisele  •  D.P. Marshall Jr.  •  Thomas Trimble  •  Jesse Henley  •  Susan Webber Wright  •  Stephen Reasoner  •  

Jimmy Carter

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Federal judges nominated by Jimmy Carter
1977

Ballantine • Bownes • Boyle • Bua • Carr • Clark • Cowan • Daly • Filippine • Higginbotham • Hoeveler • Hug • Johnstone • Kane • Keith • Leval • Logan • MacLaughlin • McKay • Melton • Merritt • Murphy • Nickerson • Oberdorfer • Roszkowski • Roy • Rubin • Sifton • Tang • Vance • Veron

1978

Arnold • Baker • Boyle • Burns • Campos • Claiborne • Collins • Cook • Devine • Diamond • Duplantier • Edenfield • Friedman • Gonzalez • Greene • Jenkins • Lowe • Mazzone • McMillian • O'Brien • Pfaelzer • Phillips • Pollak • Sand • Shapiro • Simmons • Smith • Sweet • Tanner • Wiseman • Ziegler

1979

Ackerman • Alarcon • Anderson • Arceneaux • Arnold • Aspen • Beatty • Beer • Belew • Bertelsman • Bilby • N. Black • S. Black • Bloch • Bowen • Brett • Brooks • Brown • Buchmeyer • Bunton • Burciaga • Cabranes • Carr • Carrigan • Castagna • Cire • Clark • Cohn • Conaboy • Cordova • Crabb • Cudahy • Davis • DeAnda • Debevoise • Edwards • Eginton • Ellison • Enslen • O. Evans • T. Evans • Farris • Ferguson • Fletcher • Frye • Garcia • Garza • B. Gibson • H. Gibson • Gierbolini-Ortiz • Giles • Gilliam • Green • Hall • Hastings • Hatchett • Hatfield • Hatter • Hawkins • Henderson • Higby • Hillman • Houck • Howard • Hudspeth • Hungate • F. Johnson • S. Johnson • N. Jones • S. Jones • Karlton • Kazen • Kearse • Keeton • Kehoe • Kennedy • Kidd • King • Kravitch • Loughlin • Martin • McCurn • McDonald • McNaught • McNichols • Mikva • Mitchell • Moran • Murnaghan • Murphy • D. Nelson • D.W. Nelson • Newblatt • Newman • Overton • Paine • Panner • J. Parker • R. Parker • Penn • Perez-Gimenez • Perry • Politz • Poole • Porter • Pregerson • Price • Rambo • Ramirez • Reavley • Redden • E. Reed • S. Reed • Reinhardt • Renner • Robinson • Rothstein • Sachs • Saffels • Sanders • Sarokin • Schroeder • Schwartz • Seay • Senter • Seymour • Shannon • Shaw • Shoob • Skopil • Sloviter • Sofaer • Spellman • Sprouse • Staker • Tate • Taylor • Thompson • Tidwell • Unthank • Vietor • Vining • Wald • Ward • Weinshienk • West • Wicker • Williams • Winder • Woods • Wright •

Zobel
1980

Aguilar • Aldrich • Anderson • Boochever • Breyer • Britt • Cahill • Canby • Carroll • Cerezo • Clemon • S. Ervin • R. Erwin • Getzendanner • Gilmore • Ginsburg • Haltom • Hardy • Henderson • Hobbs • Holschuh • Horton • Howard • Johnson • Keep • Kelly • Kenyon • Kocoras • Marquez • Marshall • Michael • Nixon • Norris • Patel • Polozola • Propst • Quackenbush • Ramsey • Rice • Shadur • Spiegel • Tashima • Thompson • Vela • White • Williams

1981

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