Ernest Ford Cochran (September 12, 1865 – March 4, 1934) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of South Carolina.
Ernest Ford Cochran
Born 1865 in Anderson, SC
Died 1934 in Charleston, SC
FJC ID: 464
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 6/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 11/year
South Carolina District Court · 1924–1934U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of South Carolina · 1924–1934
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, Anderson, South Carolina1889–1923
U.S. attorney for the Western District of South Carolina1921–1923- U.S. attorney for the District of South Carolina1906–1914
- District of South CarolinaAssistant U.S. attorney · 1891–1892, 1898–1905
- Anderson, South CarolinaCity attorney · 1898–1900
Appointments
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of South Carolina1924–1934 · Appointed by Calvin Coolidge (Republican)Term ended: Death
Education
LL.B. · 1888