James Clinkscales Hill (January 8, 1924 – March 31, 2017) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and previously was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.
James Clinkscales Hill
Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals
Born 1924 in Darlington, SC
Died 2017 in Stuart, FL
FJC ID: 1045
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 30/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 532/year
Georgia Northern District Court · 1974–1976Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals · 1976–1981Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals · 1981–2017
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, Atlanta, Georgia1948–1974
Air CorpsU.S. Army · 1943–1945
Appointments
1976–1981 · Appointed by Gerald Ford (Republican)Term ended: Reassignment
1974–1976 · Appointed by Richard M. Nixon (Republican)Term ended: Appointment to Another Judicial Position
Education
- University of South CarolinaB.Sc. · 1948
J.D. · 1948