Benjamin F. Gibson (July 13, 1931 – January 13, 2021) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan.
Benjamin F. Gibson
Michigan Western District Court
Chief Judge — U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan
Born 1931 in Safford, AL
Died 2021 in Gulfport, MS
FJC ID: 846
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 8/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 29/year
Michigan Western District Court · 1979–1999
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
- African American
Prior employment
- Cooley Law SchoolProfessor · 1979–1980
- Private practice, Lansing, Michigan1964–1979
- Ingham County, MichiganAssistant prosecutor · 1963–1964
State of MichiganAssistant attorney general · 1961–1963
U.S. Army private1948–1950
Appointments
1979–1999 · Appointed by Jimmy Carter (Democratic)Term ended: Retirement
Education
- Detroit College of Law (now Michigan State University College of Law)J.D. · 1960
- Wayne University (now Wayne State University)B.S. · 1955