Floyd Robert Gibson (March 3, 1910 – October 4, 2001) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and was previously a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri.
Floyd Robert Gibson
Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals
Chief Judge — U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri; U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Born 1910 in Prescott, AZ
Died 2001 in Kansas City, MO
FJC ID: 848
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 26/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 570/year
Missouri Western District Court · 1961–1965Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals · 1965–2001
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 · 1974–1979
- Private practice, Kansas City, Missouri1937–1961
- MissouriState senator · 1946–1961
- ↳president pro tem · 1957–1961
- MissouriState representative · 1940–1946
- Jackson County, MissouriCounselor · 1942–1944
- Private practice, Independence, Missouri1933–1937
Appointments
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth CircuitChief Judge1965–2001 · Appointed by Lyndon B. Johnson (Democratic)Term ended: Death
1961–1965 · Appointed by John F. Kennedy (Democratic)Term ended: Appointment to Another Judicial Position
Education
- University of Missouri School of LawLL.B. · 1933
- University of MissouriA.B. · 1931