Judith Keep
Judith Nelsen Keep (1944-2004) was a federal judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of California.
Keep was nominated by President Jimmy Carter on May 9, 1980, to a new seat created by 92 Stat. 1629; she was confirmed by the Senate on June 26, 1980, and received commission on June 30, 1980. From 1991-1998, she served as the chief judge. She served the Southern District of California until her death on September 14, 2004. Keep was succeeded in this position by Janis Sammartino.
Early life and education
- Scripps College, Claremont, California, B.A., 1966
- University of San Diego School of Law, J.D., 1970
Professional career
- Law clerk, Westgate-California, Inc., 1970
- Attorney, Defenders Inc., San Diego, California, 1971-1973
- Private practice, San Diego, California, 1973-1976
- Assistant U.S. attorney, 1976
- Municipal judge, San Diego Judicial District, 1976-1980
Judicial career
Southern District of California
Keep was nominated by President Jimmy Carter on May 9, 1980, to a new seat created by 92 Stat. 1629[1]; she was confirmed by the Senate on June 26, 1980, and received commission on June 30, 1980. From 1991-1998, she served as the chief judge. She served the Southern District of California until her death on September 14, 2004. Keep was succeeded in this position by Janis Sammartino.
External links
- Keep's Biography from the Federal Judicial Center
Footnotes
- ↑ Keep's Biography from the Federal Judicial Center
| Political offices | ||
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| Preceded by: NA-New Seat |
Southern District of California 1980–2004 Seat #6 |
Succeeded by: Janis Sammartino
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| 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 | |||
