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Dean Whipple
Judge, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri. Senior status since April 30, 2007.
Confirmed by voice voteConfirmed from the official record
- Appointed by
- Ronald Reagan
- Nominated
- September 14, 1987
- Senate Judiciary Committee hearing
- November 17, 1987
- Committee action
- Reported (favorably), December 3, 1987
- Senate vote
- Voice vote, no count printed
- Confirmed
- December 8, 1987
- Commissioned
- December 9, 1987
- Senior status
- Since April 30, 2007
- American Bar Association rating
- Qualified
Born 1938, 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.
All judges of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri
Career, as the Federal Judicial Center prints it
- Private practice, Lebanon, Missouri, 1967-1974
- Prosecutor, Laclede County, Missouri, 1967-1971
- Judge, Circuit Court of Missouri, Twenty-Sixth Judicial Circuit, 1975-1987
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