Claude Meredith Hilton (born December 8, 1940) is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
Claude M. Hilton
Virginia Eastern District Court
Chief Judge — U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
Born 1940 in Scott County, VA
FJC ID: 1051
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 6/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 73/year
Virginia Eastern District Court · 1985–2005
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
- Private practice, Arlington, Virginia1968–1973, 1976–1985
- Virginia Circuit Court, Arlington CountyCommissioner in chancery · 1976–1985
- VirginiaCommonwealth's attorney · 1974–1975
- Arlington, VirginiaAssistant commonwealth's attorney · 1967–1968
Appointments
1985–2005 · Appointed by Ronald Reagan (Republican)
Education
- American University, Washington College of LawJ.D. · 1966
- Ohio State UniversityB.S. · 1963