Barbara Kloka Hackett (March 17, 1928 – December 23, 2018) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.
Barbara Kloka Hackett
Michigan Eastern District Court
Born 1928 in Detroit, MI
Died 2018 in Brighton, MI
FJC ID: 932
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 11/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 23/year
Michigan Eastern District Court · 1986–2000
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
- Female
- Race
- White
Prior employment
- Private practice, Detroit, Michigan1952–1965, 1966–1967, 1972–1973, 1984–1986
- Appellate Division, Wayne County Prosecutor's OfficeActing chief · 1986
- Wayne County, MichiganAssistant prosecutor · 1967–1972
- Michigan Court of AppealsChief law clerk · 1965–1966
- New York Central Railroad CompanyLawyer · 1963–1965
Law clerk , Hon. Frank Picard · 1951–1952- Michigan-Wisconsin Pipeline CompanyStaff lawyer · 1950–1951
Appointments
- 1986–2000 · Appointed by Ronald Reagan (Republican)Term ended: Retirement
Education
- University of Detroit Law School (now University of Detroit Mercy School of Law)J.D. · 1950
- University of Detroit (now University of Detroit Mercy)Ph.B. · 1948