Thomas Alonzo Clark (December 20, 1920 – September 4, 2005) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and later the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 16/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 246/year
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals · 1979–1981Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals · 1981–2005
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, Tampa, Florida1957–1979
- Private practice, Americus, Georgia1955–1957
- Georgia Southwestern CollegeInstructor · 1956–1957
- Private practice, Bainbridge, Georgia1949–1955
- U.S. Naval Reserve1942–1946
Appointments
1979–1981 · Appointed by Jimmy Carter (Democratic)Term ended: Reassignment
Education
LL.B. · 1949- Washington and Lee UniversityB.S. · 1942