Lester LeFevre Cecil (November 21, 1893 – November 26, 1982) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and previously was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio.
Lester LeFevre Cecil
Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals
Chief Judge — U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Born 1893 in Miami County, OH
Died 1982
FJC ID: 405
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 24/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 300/year
Ohio Southern District Court · 1953–1959Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals · 1959–1982
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
- Judicial Conference of the United StatesMember · 1962–1963
- Montgomery County [Ohio] Court of Common PleasJudge · 1929–1953
- Dayton [Ohio] Municipal CourtJudge · 1926–1929
- Dayton, OhioCity prosecutor · 1922–1925
- Private practice, Dayton, Ohio1917–1918, 1918–1922
U.S. Army sergeant1918
Appointments
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth CircuitChief Judge1959–1982 · Appointed by Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican)Term ended: Death
1953–1959 · Appointed by Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican)Term ended: Appointment to Another Judicial Position
Education
LL.B. · 1917