Myron Donovan Crocker (September 4, 1915 – February 2, 2010) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California and the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California.
Myron Donovan Crocker
California Eastern District Court
Chief Judge — U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California
Born 1915 in Pasadena, CA
Died 2010 in Chowchilla, CA
FJC ID: 536
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 4/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 36/year
California Southern District Court · 1959–1966California Eastern District Court · 1966–2010
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
- Superior Court of California, County of MaderaJudge · 1958–1959
- Private practice, Chowchilla, California1946–1958
- Chowchilla [California] Justice CourtJudge · 1952–1958
- Madera County, CaliforniaAssistant district attorney · 1946–1951
Federal Bureau of InvestigationSpecial agent · 1940–1946
Appointments
1966–2010 (None (reassignment))Term ended: Death
1959–1966 · Appointed by Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican)Term ended: Reassignment
Education
- University of California, Berkeley, School of JurisprudenceLL.B. · 1940
- Fresno State College (now California State University, Fresno)A.B. · 1937