Orville Edwin Langley (October 28, 1908 – September 12, 1973) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma.
Orville Edwin Langley
Oklahoma Eastern District Court
Chief Judge — U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma
Born 1908 in near Prague, OK
Died 1973
FJC ID: 1341
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 4/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 12/year
Oklahoma Eastern District Court · 1965–1973
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. attorney for the Eastern District of Oklahoma1961–1965- Private practice, Muskogee, Oklahoma1940–1961
- OklahomaState representative · 1949–1952
U.S. Army colonel1942–1946
Appointments
1965–1973 · Appointed by Lyndon B. Johnson (Democratic)Term ended: Death
Education
- Tulsa Law School (now University of Tulsa College of Law)LL.B. · 1940
- Harvard UniversityB.S. · 1932