James Kenneth Logan (August 21, 1929 – September 8, 2018) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
James Kenneth Logan
Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals
Born 1929 in Quenemo, KS
Died 2018 in Olathe, KS
FJC ID: 1412
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 114/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 1,197/year
Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals · 1977–1998
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
Lecturer in law · 1987, 1991, 1993
Faculty · 1957–1968, 1982- ↳assistant professor · 1957–1961
- ↳dean/professor of law · 1961–1968
- ↳lecturer in law · 1982
- Private practice, Olathe, Kansas1968–1977
Visiting professor of law · 1976
Visiting professor of law · 1969
Visiting professor of law · 1964
Ezra Ripley Thayer Teaching Fellow · 1961–1962- Private practice, Los Angeles, California1956–1957
Law clerk , Hon. Walter Huxman · 1955–1956
U.S. Army corporal1947–1948
Appointments
- 1977–1998 · Appointed by Jimmy Carter (Democratic)Term ended: Retirement
Education
- LL.B. · 1955
- University of KansasA.B. · 1952