Joseph Tyree Sneed III (July 21, 1920 – February 9, 2008) was an American jurist who served as United States Deputy Attorney General and then as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit for nearly 35 years until his death. He was the father of Carly Fiorina, a former CEO of Hewlett-Packard.
Joseph Tyree Sneed III
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
Born 1920 in Calvert, TX
Died 2008 in San Francisco, CA
FJC ID: 2234
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 18/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 417/year
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals · 1973–2008
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
Dean and professor of law · 1971–1973
U.S. Department of JusticeDeputy attorney general · 1973
Professor of law · 1962–1971
Professor of law · 1957–1962
Faculty · 1947–1957- ↳assistant professor · 1947–1951
- ↳associate professor · 1951–1954
- ↳professor · 1954–1957
- Private practice, Austin, Texas1954–1956
Air CorpsU.S. Army staff sergeant · 1942–1946
Appointments
1973–2008 · Appointed by Richard M. Nixon (Republican)Term ended: Death
Education
S.J.D. · 1958- LL.B. · 1947
- Southwestern UniversityB.B.A. · 1941