Richard Dickson Cudahy (February 2, 1926 – September 22, 2015) was an American business executive, law professor, and United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
Richard Dickson Cudahy
Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals
Born 1926 in Milwaukee, WI
Died 2015 in Winnetka, IL
FJC ID: 540
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 57/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 2,103/year
Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals · 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, Washington, D.C.1976–1979
Lecturer · 1976–1979- Wisconsin Public Service CommissionMember/chairman · 1972–1975
- Private practice, Milwaukee, Wisconsin1972
- Patrick Cudahy, Inc., Cudahy and Milwaukee, WisconsinPresident/C.E.O. · 1961–1971
Visiting professor of law · 1966–1967
Lecturer · 1961–1966- Private practice, Chicago, Illinois1957–1960
U.S. Department of StateAssistant to legal advisor · 1956–1957
Law clerk , Hon. Charles E. Clark · 1955–1956
Air CorpsU.S. Army lieutenant · 1948–1951
Appointments
1979–2015 · Appointed by Jimmy Carter (Democratic)Term ended: Death
Education
J.D. · 1955- U.S. Military AcademyB.S. · 1948