Charles Robert Richey (October 16, 1923 – March 19, 1997) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
Charles Robert Richey
District of Columbia District Court
Born 1923 in Logan County, OH
Died 1997 in Washington, DC
FJC ID: 2004
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 3/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 20/year
District of Columbia District Court · 1971–1997
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
Adjunct professor · 1975–1997- Private practice, Washington, D.C., and Chevy Chase, Maryland1949–1971
- Maryland Public Service CommissionGeneral counsel · 1967–1971
- Montgomery County [Maryland] Board of AppealsMember · 1965–1967
- ↳chairman · 1966–1967
- Montgomery County, MarylandSpecial counsel on councilmanic redistricting · 1965–1966
- American UniversitySpeech and debate coach · 1954–1955
- U.S. Rep. Frances P. Bolton of OhioLegislative counsel · 1948–1949
Corps of Engineers, World War IIU.S. Army
Appointments
1971–1997 · Appointed by Richard M. Nixon (Republican)Term ended: Death
Education
- Western Reserve University (now Case Western Reserve University) School of LawLL.B. · 1948
- Ohio Wesleyan UniversityA.B. · 1945