David Courtney Westenhaver (January 13, 1865 – July 29, 1928) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.
David C. Westenhaver
Born 1865 in Berkeley County, WV
Died 1928
FJC ID: 2555
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 3/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 9/year
Ohio Northern District Court · 1917–1928
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, Cleveland, Ohio1903–1917
- Cleveland [Ohio] Board of EducationMember · 1912–1915
- Private practice, Martinsburg, West Virginia1886–1903
- Martinsburg, West VirginiaCity councilman · 1902–1903
- Berkeley County, West VirginiaProsecutor · 1886–1887
Appointments
1917–1928 · Appointed by Woodrow Wilson (Democratic)Term ended: Death
Education
- Georgetown College Law School (now Georgetown University Law Center)LL.B. · 1886