Joel Fredrick Dubina (born October 26, 1947) is an American attorney who is a Senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama.
Joel Fredrick Dubina
Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals
Chief Judge — U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Born 1947 in Elkhart, IN
FJC ID: 652
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 10/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 174/year
Alabama Middle District Court · 1986–1990Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals · 1990–2013
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
- Judicial Conference of the United StatesMember · 2009–2013
- Private practice, Montgomery, Alabama1974–1983
Law clerk , Hon. Robert E. Varner · 1973–1974
Appointments
1990–2013 · Appointed by George H.W. Bush (Republican)- 1986–1990 · Appointed by Ronald Reagan (Republican)Term ended: Appointment to Another Judicial Position
Education
- Samford University, Cumberland School of LawJ.D. · 1973
- University of AlabamaB.S. · 1970