Robert Lewis Hinkle (born November 7, 1951) is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida.
Robert Lewis Hinkle
Florida Northern District Court
Chief Judge — U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida
Born 1951 in Apalachicola, FL
FJC ID: 1053
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 3/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 12/year
Florida Northern District Court · 1996–
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 · 2006–2007
- Private practice, Tallahassee, Florida1978–1996
Adjunct professor of law · 1981- Private practice, Atlanta, Georgia1977–1978
Law clerk , Hon. Irving Goldberg · 1976–1977
Appointments
1996–2016 · Appointed by William J. Clinton (Democratic)
Education
J.D. · 1976- Florida State UniversityB.A. · 1972