James Buchanan Holland (November 14, 1857 – April 24, 1914) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
James Buchanan Holland
Pennsylvania Eastern District Court
Born 1857 in Gwynedd Township, PA
Died 1914 in Conshohocken, PA
FJC ID: 1074
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 3/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 2/year
Pennsylvania Eastern District Court · 1904–1914
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, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania1887–1904
U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania1900–1904
U.S. Navy1898–1900- Montgomery County, PennsylvaniaDistrict attorney · 1893–1896
- Montgomery County, PennsylvaniaSolicitor · 1887–1893
- Montgomery County, PennsylvaniaClerk of county commissioners · 1882–1887
Appointments
1904–1914 · Appointed by Theodore Roosevelt (Republican)Term ended: Death
Education
- Read law1887