Rodney William Sippel (born July 26, 1956) is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri and of the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri.
Rodney W. Sippel
Missouri Eastern District Court
Chief Judge — U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri
Born 1956 in Jefferson City, MO
FJC ID: 2745
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 1/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 4/year
Missouri Eastern District Court · 1997–Missouri Western District Court · 1997–
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 · 2009–2015
- Private practice, St. Louis, Missouri1982–1993, 1995–1997
- U.S. Rep. Richard A. Gephardt of MissouriAdministrative assistant · 1993–1995
Appointments
1997–2023 · Appointed by William J. Clinton (Democratic)
1997–2023 · Appointed by William J. Clinton (Democratic)
Education
- Washington University School of LawJ.D. · 1981
- University of TulsaB.S. · 1978