Lee Roy West (November 26, 1929 – April 24, 2020) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma.
Lee Roy West
Oklahoma Western District Court
Chief Judge — U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma
Born 1929 in Clayton, OK
Died 2020 in Muskogee, OK
FJC ID: 2552
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 2/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 36/year
Oklahoma Western District Court · 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.
- Gender
- Male
- Race
- White
Prior employment
- Private practice, Tulsa, Oklahoma1978–1979
- Civil Aeronautics BoardMember · 1973–1978
- ↳acting chairman · 1977
- Oklahoma District Court, Twenty-Second Judicial DistrictJudge · 1965–1973
- Supreme Court of Oklahoma and Oklahoma Court of Criminal AppealsSpecial justice · 1965–1973
- Private practice, Ada, Oklahoma1956–1961, 1963–1965
Ford Foundation Fellow in law teaching · 1962–1963
Faculty · 1961–1962
U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant1952–1956- ↳active duty · 1952–1954
Appointments
1979–2020 · Appointed by Jimmy Carter (Democratic)Term ended: Death
Education
- LL.M. · 1963
- J.D. · 1956
- University of OklahomaB.A. · 1952