Henry Luesing Brooks (December 9, 1905 – December 30, 1971) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and previously a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky.
Henry Luesing Brooks
Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals
Chief Judge — U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky
Born 1905 in Louisville, KY
Died 1971
FJC ID: 276
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 14/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 53/year
Kentucky Western District Court · 1954–1969Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals · 1969–1971
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, Louisville, Kentucky1929–1954
- Jefferson School of LawFaculty · 1948–1952
- Jefferson County [Kentucky] Circuit CourtJudge · 1946–1948
- U.S. Naval Reserve lieutenant1942–1945
Appointments
1969–1971 · Appointed by Richard M. Nixon (Republican)Term ended: Death
1954–1969 · Appointed by Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican)Term ended: Appointment to Another Judicial Position
Education
- Jefferson School of Law (now University of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law)LL.B. · 1929
- University of WisconsinA.B. · 1927