Carl Edmond Stewart (born January 2, 1950) is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He was appointed by Bill Clinton in 1994, and previously sat as a judge of the Louisiana Circuit Courts of Appeal from 1985 to 1994.
Carl E. Stewart
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
Chief Judge — U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Born 1950 in Shreveport, LA
FJC ID: 2292
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 26/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 702/year
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals · 1994–2012Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals · 2012–2019
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
- Judicial Conference of the United StatesMember · 2012–2019
- Louisiana Court of Appeal, Second Judicial CircuitJudge · 1991–1994
- Louisiana District Court, First Judicial DistrictJudge · 1985–1991
- Private practice, Shreveport, Louisiana1977–1978, 1983–1985
Western District of LouisianaAssistant U.S. attorney · 1979–1983- Louisiana Attorney General's OfficeStaff attorney · 1978–1979
JAG CorpsU.S. Army captain · 1975–1977
Appointments
2012–2019- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth CircuitChief Judge1994–2012 · Appointed by William J. Clinton (Democratic)
Education
- Loyola University New Orleans School of LawJ.D. · 1974
- Loyola University New Orleansjd · 1974
- Dillard UniversityB.A. · 1971
- Dillard Universitymagna cum laude · 1971