Allen Joe Fish (born November 12, 1942) is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas in Dallas.
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A[llen] Joe Fish
Chief Judge — U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas
Born 1942 in Los Angeles, CA
FJC ID: 757
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 5/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 10/year
Texas Northern District Court · 1983–2007
Both charts share the same year axis. Opinion counts include only opinions in our corpus attributed to this judge so far — a year at zero can mean an attribution gap, not judicial silence. Influence typically outlasts the career: citations keep climbing after the last opinion.
- Gender
- Male
- Race
- White
Prior employment
- Fifth Court of Civil Appeals of TexasJustice · 1981–1983
- Dallas County [Texas] Ninety-Fifth District CourtJudge · 1980–1981
- Private practice, Dallas, Texas1968–1980
U.S. Army Reserve sergeant1968–1974
Appointments
1983–2007 · Appointed by Ronald Reagan (Republican)
Education
LL.B. · 1968- Yale CollegeB.A. · 1965