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Joseph Jerome Farris

Joseph Jerome Farris

Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

Born 1930 in Birmingham, AL

Died 2020 in Seattle, WA

FJC ID: 737

Career output and lasting influence

Opinions attributed per year · peak 12/year

Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals · 1979–2020197919902000201020202025120
opinions

Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 253/year

Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals · 1979–20201979199020002010202020252530
citing decisions

Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals · 1979–2020

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.

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Joseph Jerome Farris (March 4, 1930 – July 23, 2020) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

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Gender
Male
Race
African American

Prior employment

  1. Court of Appeals of the State of Washington
    Judge · 1969–1979
  2. Private practice, Seattle, Washington
    1958–1969
  3. U.S. Army Signal Corps
    1952–1953

Appointments

  1. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
    U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
    1979–2020 · Appointed by Jimmy Carter (Democratic)
    Term ended: Death

Education

  1. University of Washington School of Law
    University of Washington School of Law
    J.D. · 1958
  2. Atlanta University (now Clark Atlanta University)
    M.S.W. · 1955
  3. Morehouse College
    B.S. · 1951