Richard Alan Enslen (May 28, 1931 – February 17, 2015) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan, Southern Division, with chambers in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Richard Alan Enslen
Michigan Western District Court
Chief Judge — U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan
Born 1931 in Kalamazoo, MI
Died 2015 in Kalamazoo, MI
FJC ID: 711
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 9/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 35/year
Michigan Western District Court · 1979–2015
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
- Private practice, Kalamazoo, Michigan1958–1965, 1970–1979
- Michigan District CourtJudge · 1969–1970
- Kalamazoo [Michigan] Municipal CourtJudge · 1968–1969
- U.S. Peace Corps, Costa RicaDirector · 1965–1968
- First National Bank & Trust Company, Kalamazoo, MichiganAssistant trust officer · 1958
U.S. Air Force1951–1954
Appointments
1979–2015 · Appointed by Jimmy Carter (Democratic)Term ended: Death
Education
LL.B. · 1958