Leon Clarence McCord (June 21, 1878 – February 11, 1952) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 8/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 21/year
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals · 1938–1952
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, Montgomery, Alabama1910–1916, 1935–1938
- Alabama Circuit Court, Fifteenth Judicial CircuitJudge · 1916–1935
- ↳presiding judge · 1919–1935
- AlabamaDemocratic candidate for governor · 1934
- State of AlabamaRailroad commissioner · 1911–1915
- Supreme Court of AlabamaSecretary · 1903–1909
- Private practice, Scottsboro, Alabama1900–1903
Appointments
1938–1952 · Appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democratic)Term ended: Death
Education
- Vanderbilt University
- Read law1900