Harold Dean Whipple (born April 3, 1938) is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri.
Dean Whipple
Missouri Western District Court
Chief Judge — U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri
Born 1938 in Lebanon, MO
FJC ID: 2563
Career output and lasting influence
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 7/year
Missouri Western District Court · 1987–2007
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
- Circuit Court of Missouri, Twenty-Sixth Judicial CircuitJudge · 1975–1987
- Private practice, Lebanon, Missouri1967–1974
- Laclede County, MissouriProsecutor · 1967–1971
Appointments
1987–2007 · Appointed by Ronald Reagan (Republican)
Education
- University of Missouri-Kansas City School of LawJ.D. · 1965
- Drury CollegeA.B. · 1961