Malcolm Richard Wilkey (December 6, 1918 – August 15, 2009) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and United States Ambassador to Uruguay.
Malcolm Richard Wilkey
District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals
Born 1918 in Murfreesboro, TN
Died 2009 in Santiago, Chile
FJC ID: 2581
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 17/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 524/year
District of Columbia District Court · 1970–1985District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals · 1970–1985
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
U.S. Department of StateAmbassador to Uruguay · 1985–1990- Kennecott Copper CorporationGeneral counsel and secretary · 1963–1970
- Private practice, Texas1948–1954, 1961–1963
U.S. Department of JusticeAssistant attorney general · 1958–1961- ↳Office of Legal Affairs · 1958–1959
- ↳Criminal Division · 1959–1961
- U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Texas1954–1958
- University of Houston School of LawInstructor · 1949–1954
U.S. Army Reserve lieutenant colonel1946–1953- U.S. Army major1941–1945
Appointments
1970–1985 · Appointed by Richard M. Nixon (Republican)Term ended: Retirement
Education
LL.B. · 1948- Harvard UniversityA.B. · 1940