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Henry Travillion Wingate
Judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. Active service.
Confirmed by voice voteConfirmed from the official record
- Appointed by
- Ronald Reagan
- Nominated
- September 11, 1985
- Senate Judiciary Committee hearing
- September 25, 1985
- Committee action
- Reported (favorably), September 26, 1985
- Senate vote
- Voice vote, no count printed
- Confirmed
- October 16, 1985
- Commissioned
- October 17, 1985
- American Bar Association rating
- Qualified
Born 1947, 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
- Law clerk, Community Legal Aid, Jackson, Mississippi, 1972-1973
- Private practice, Jackson, Mississippi, 1973
- U.S. Navy lieutenant, Naval Legal Services Office, 1973-1976; senior assistant defense counsel, 1973-1974; trial counsel, 1974-1976
- Adjunct instructor, Golden Gate University, 1975-1976
- Adjunct lecturer, Tidewater Community College, 1976
- Special assistant attorney general, State of Mississippi, 1976-1980
- Adjunct professor, Mississippi College School of Law, 1978-1983
- Assistant district attorney, Mississippi Circuit Court, Seventh Judicial District, 1980-1984
- U.S. Naval Reserve, 1983-
- Assistant U.S. attorney, Southern District of Mississippi, 1984-1985
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