Frederick Pierce Lively (August 17, 1921 – March 12, 2016) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
Pierce Lively
Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals
Chief Judge — U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Born 1921 in Louisville, KY
Died 2016
FJC ID: 1407
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 23/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 462/year
Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals · 1972–2016
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 · 1984–1988
- Private practice, Danville, Kentucky1949–1972
Law clerk , Hon. Shackelford Miller · 1948–1949- U.S. Naval Reserve lieutenant junior grade1943–1946
Appointments
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth CircuitChief Judge1972–2016 · Appointed by Richard M. Nixon (Republican)Term ended: Death
Education
LL.B. · 1948- Centre CollegeA.B. · 1943