Thomas Jamison MacBride (March 25, 1914 – January 6, 2000) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California and the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California.
Thomas Jamison MacBride
California Eastern District Court
Chief Judge — U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California
Born 1914 in Sacramento, CA
Died 2000 in Sacramento, CA
FJC ID: 1451
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 3/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 53/year
California Northern District Court · 1961–1966California Eastern District Court · 1966–2000
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 · 1975–1978
- Private practice, Sacramento, California1946–1961
- U.S. Naval Reserve1942–1946
Office of the Deputy Attorney General, State of CaliforniaLaw clerk · 1940–1942
Appointments
1966–2000 (None (reassignment))Term ended: Death
1961–1966 · Appointed by John F. Kennedy (Democratic)Term ended: Reassignment
Education
- University of California, Berkeley, School of JurisprudenceJ.D. · 1940
- University of California, BerkeleyA.B. · 1936