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James Rodney Gilstrap
Judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. Active service.
Confirmed by voice voteConfirmed from the official record
- Appointed by
- Barack Obama
- Nominated
- May 19, 2011
- Senate Judiciary Committee hearing
- July 27, 2011
- Committee action
- Reported (favorably), September 15, 2011
- Senate vote
- Voice vote, no count printed
- Confirmed
- December 5, 2011
- Commissioned
- December 6, 2011
- American Bar Association rating
- Qualified
Born 1957, 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 Eastern District of Texas
Career, as the Federal Judicial Center prints it
- Private practice, Marshall, Texas, 1981-2011
- Judge, Harrison County [Texas] Court, 1989-2002
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