Danny Julian Boggs (born October 23, 1944) is an American lawyer and a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. He was appointed to the court in 1986 and served as its chief judge from September 2003 to August 2009. Boggs was on the short list of President George W. Bush's candidates for the U.S. Supreme Court.
Danny Julian Boggs
Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals
Chief Judge — U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Born 1944 in Havana, Cuba
FJC ID: 202
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 33/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 1,348/year
Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals · 1986–
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
- Judicial Conference of the United StatesMember · 2003–2009
- Deputy secretary of energy1983–1986
- Executive Office of the PresidentSpecial assistant to the president · 1981–1983
- Private practice, Washington, D.C.1979–1981
- U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural ResourcesDeputy minority counsel · 1977–1979
- Nunn for Governor campaign, Louisville, KentuckyDeputy campaign director · 1979
- Federal Power CommissionAssistant to the chairman · 1975–1977
U.S. Department of JusticeAssistant to the solicitor general · 1973–1975- Private practice, Bowling Green, Kentucky1975
- Private practice, Frankfort, Kentucky1973
- U.S. Department of CommerceAttorney · 1973
- Kentucky State House of RepresentativesLegislative counsel/assistant to minority leader · 1972
- Kentucky Republican CampaignAttorney · 1972
- Gov. Louie Nunn, KentuckyLegal counsel/administrative assistant · 1970–1971
- Kentucky Department for Economic Security, Frankfort, KentuckyDeputy commissioner · 1969–1970
Instructor · 1968–1969
Appointments
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth CircuitChief Judge1986–2017 · Appointed by Ronald Reagan (Republican)
Education
- J.D. · 1968
- Harvard CollegeA.B. · 1965