Paul Hitch Roney (September 5, 1921 – September 16, 2006) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Paul Hitch Roney
Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals
Chief Judge — U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Born 1921 in Olney, IL
Died 2006 in St. Petersburg, FL
FJC ID: 2045
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 14/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 223/year
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals · 1970–1981Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals · 1981–2006
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 · 1986–1989
- Private practice, St. Petersburg, Florida1950–1970
- Stetson College of LawLecturer · 1957, 1965, 1966
- Private practice, New York City1948–1950
U.S. Army staff sergeant1942–1946
Appointments
1981–2006 (None (reassignment))Term ended: Death
1970–1981 · Appointed by Richard M. Nixon (Republican)Term ended: Reassignment
Education
LL.M. · 1984
LL.B. · 1948- University of Pennsylvania, Wharton SchoolB.S. · 1942
- St. Petersburg Junior CollegeA.A. · 1940