Horace Weldon Gilmore (April 4, 1918 – January 25, 2010) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.
Horace Weldon Gilmore
Michigan Eastern District Court
Born 1918 in Columbus, OH
Died 2010 in Grosse Pointe, MI
FJC ID: 862
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 13/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 106/year
Michigan Eastern District Court · 1980–2010
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
- Michigan Circuit Court, Third Judicial CircuitJudge · 1956–1980
State of MichiganDeputy attorney general · 1954–1956- Private practice, Detroit, Michigan1947–1951, 1953–1954
- Michigan Board of Tax AppealsMember · 1954
- Eastern District of MichiganSpecial assistant U.S. attorney · 1951–1952
Law clerk , Hon. Charles Simons · 1946–1947- U.S. Naval Reserve lieutenant1942–1946
Appointments
1980–2010 · Appointed by Jimmy Carter (Democratic)Term ended: Death
Education
J.D. · 1942- University of MichiganB.A. · 1939