Howard Boyd Turrentine (January 22, 1914 – August 20, 2010) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California.
Howard Boyd Turrentine
California Southern District Court
Chief Judge — U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California
Born 1914 in Escondido, CA
Died 2010 in Point Loma, CA
FJC ID: 2425
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 2/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 24/year
California Southern District Court · 1970–2010
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
- Superior Court of California, County of San DiegoJudge · 1968–1970
- Private practice, San Diego, California1939–1941, 1945–1968
- Selective Service Appeals BoardMember · 1966
U.S. Navy lieutenant commander1941–1945- San Diego, CaliforniaDeputy city attorney · 1940–1941
Appointments
1970–2010 · Appointed by Richard M. Nixon (Republican)Term ended: Death
Education
- University of Southern California Law School (now Gould School of Law)LL.B. · 1939
- San Diego State CollegeA.B. · 1936