Julio Manuel Fuentes (born February 16, 1946) is a Senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Fuentes is the first Hispanic judge to serve on the Third Circuit.
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 16/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 297/year
Third Circuit Court of Appeals · 2000–
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
- Hispanic
Prior employment
- Superior Court of New JerseyJudge · 1987–2000
- Newark [New Jersey] Municipal CourtJudge · 1979–1987
- Private practice, Newark, New Jersey1975–1981
Appointments
2000–2016 · Appointed by William J. Clinton (Democratic)
Education
- Rutgers UniversityM.A. · 1993
- State University of New York at Buffalo Law SchoolJ.D. · 1975
- New York UniversityM.A. · 1972
- Southern Illinois UniversityB.A. · 1971