Harrison Lee Winter (April 18, 1921 – April 10, 1990) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and previously was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland.
Harrison Lee Winter
Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals
Chief Judge — U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Born 1921 in Baltimore, MD
Died 1990 in Baltimore, MD
FJC ID: 2620
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 8/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 109/year
Maryland District Court · 1962–1966Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals · 1966–1990
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 · 1981–1989
- Baltimore, MarylandCity solicitor · 1959–1961
- Private practice, Baltimore, Maryland1945–1959
State of MarylandDeputy attorney general · 1954–1955- State of MarylandAssistant attorney general · 1948–1951
Appointments
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth CircuitChief Judge1966–1990 · Appointed by Lyndon B. Johnson (Democratic)Term ended: Death
1962–1966 · Appointed by John F. Kennedy (Democratic)Term ended: Appointment to Another Judicial Position
Education
- University of Maryland School of Law (now Francis King Carey School of Law)LL.B. · 1944
- Johns Hopkins UniversityA.B. · 1942