Levin Hicks Campbell (born January 2, 1927) is an inactive Senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
Levin Hicks Campbell
First Circuit Court of Appeals
Chief Judge — U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Born 1927 in Summit, NJ
FJC ID: 363
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 61/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 1,574/year
Massachusetts District Court · 1971–1972Massachusetts District Court · 1971–1972First Circuit Court of Appeals · 1972–1992
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 · 1983–1990
- Massachusetts Superior CourtAssociate justice · 1969–1972
- Massachusetts Attorney General's Office1965–1968
- ↳assistant attorney general · 1965–1966
- ↳special assistant attorney general · 1966–1967
- ↳first assistant attorney general · 1967–1968
- Private practice, Boston, Massachusetts1954–1964
State representative · 1963–1964
JAG CorpsU.S. Army lieutenant · 1951–1954
Appointments
U.S. Court of Appeals for the First CircuitChief Judge1972–1992 · Appointed by Richard M. Nixon (Republican)
1971–1972 · Appointed by Richard M. Nixon (Republican)Term ended: Appointment to Another Judicial Position
Education
LL.B. · 1951- Harvard CollegeA.B. · 1948