John A. Field Jr. (March 22, 1910 – December 16, 1995) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and previously was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia.
John A. Field Jr.
Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals
Chief Judge — U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia
Born 1910 in Charleston, WV
Died 1995 in Naples, FL
FJC ID: 749
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 7/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 77/year
West Virginia Southern District Court · 1959–1971Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals · 1971–1995
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
- State of West VirginiaTax commissioner · 1957–1959
- Private practice, Charleston, West Virginia1935–1943, 1947–1957
- State of West VirginiaRepublican candidate for attorney general · 1956
- Charleston [West Virginia] City CouncilMember · 1947–1955
- ↳president · 1951–1955
U.S. Navy1944–1946
Appointments
1971–1995 · Appointed by Richard M. Nixon (Republican)Term ended: Death
1959–1971 · Appointed by Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican)Term ended: Appointment to Another Judicial Position
Education
LL.B. · 1935- Hampden-Sydney CollegeA.B. · 1932