Eugene Allen Wright (February 23, 1913 – September 3, 2002) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Eugene Allen Wright
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
Born 1913 in Seattle, WA
Died 2002 in Seattle, WA
FJC ID: 2659
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 28/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 1,091/year
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals · 1969–2002
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
Lecturer · 1952–1974- Pacific National Bank, Seattle, WashingtonVice president and senior trust officer · 1966–1969
- Superior Court of the State of Washington, King CountyJudge · 1954–1966
- School of Communications, University of WashingtonLecturer · 1965–1966
U.S. Army Reserve colonel1934–1965- ↳active service · 1941–1946
- Private practice, Seattle, Washington1937–1941, 1946–1954
- Seattle [Washington] Municipal CourtJudge pro tem · 1948–1952
Appointments
1969–2002 · Appointed by Richard M. Nixon (Republican)Term ended: Death
Education
- J.D. · 1937
- University of WashingtonA.B. · 1934