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William Cameron Canby, Jr.
Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Senior status since May 23, 1996.
Confirmed by voice voteConfirmed from the official record
- Appointed by
- Jimmy Carter
- Nominated
- April 2, 1980
- Senate Judiciary Committee hearing
- April 25, 1980
- Committee action
- Reported (favorably), May 20, 1980
- Senate vote
- Voice vote, no count printed
- Confirmed
- May 21, 1980
- Commissioned
- May 23, 1980
- Senior status
- Since May 23, 1996
- American Bar Association rating
- Well Qualified
Born 1931, as the Federal Judicial Center prints it.
Source: Federal Judicial Center, Biographical Directory of Article III Federal Judges · This judge’s entry. Our copy saved October 16, 2026, fingerprint 92b677f26553b479.
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Career, as the Federal Judicial Center prints it
- U.S. Air Force lieutenant and judge advocate, 1956-1958
- Law clerk, Hon. Charles E. Whittaker, Supreme Court of the United States, 1958-1959
- Private practice, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1959-1962
- U.S. Peace Corps, 1962-1966; associate director, Ethiopia, 1962-1963; deputy director, Ethiopia, 1963-1964, director, Uganda, 1964-1966
- Special assistant, U.S. Sen. Walter F. Mondale of Minnesota, Washington, D.C., 1966
- Special assistant, President Harris Wofford, State University of New York at Old Westbury, 1967
- Professor of law, Arizona State University, 1967-1980
- Director, Office of Indian Law, Arizona State University College of Law
- Visiting Fulbright professor of law, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, 1970-1971
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