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Curtis Dwight Wilbur

Curtis Dwight Wilbur

Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

Born 1867 in Boonesboro, IA

Died 1954 in Palo Alto, CA

FJC ID: 2577

Curtis Dwight Wilbur (May 10, 1867 – September 8, 1954) was an American lawyer, California state judge, 43rd United States Secretary of the Navy and a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

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Gender
Male
Race
White

Prior employment

  1. Private practice, Los Angeles, California
    1890–present
  2. Conference of Senior Circuit Judges (now Judicial Conference of the United States)
    Member · 1931–1944
  3. Secretary of the Navy
    1924–1929
  4. Supreme Court of California
    Justice · 1918–1924
    • ↳chief justice · 1922–1924
  5. Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles
    Judge · 1903–1918
  6. Los Angeles County, California
    Chief deputy district attorney · 1899–1903

Appointments

  1. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
    U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
    1929–1954 · Appointed by Herbert Hoover (Republican)
    Term ended: Death
  2. California Supreme Court
    California Supreme Court
    1918–1924

Education

  1. Read law
    1890
  2. U.S. Naval Academy
    B.S. · 1888