Robert Howard Schnacke (October 8, 1913 – June 5, 1994) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.
Robert Howard Schnacke
California Northern District Court
Born 1913 in San Francisco, CA
Died 1994
FJC ID: 2115
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 3/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 23/year
California Northern District Court · 1970–1994
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
Member · 1979–1990
Board member · 1975–1979- Superior Court of CaliforniaJudge · 1968–1970
- Private practice, San Francisco, California1938–1942, 1946, 1951–1953, 1959–1968
U.S. attorney for the Northern District of California1958–1959- Criminal Division, Northern District of CaliforniaAssistant U.S. attorney and chief · 1953–1958
- Division of Corporations, State of CaliforniaDeputy commissioner · 1947–1951
Counter Intelligence CorpsU.S. Army special agent · 1942–1946
Appointments
1970–1994 · Appointed by Richard M. Nixon (Republican)Term ended: Death
Education
- University of California Hastings College of the Law (now UC College of the Law, San Francisco)J.D. · 1938