Wallace Samuel Gourley (August 4, 1904 – September 23, 1976) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.
Wallace Samuel Gourley
Pennsylvania Western District Court
Chief Judge — U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
Born 1904 in Wellsville, OH
Died 1976
FJC ID: 896
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 3/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 11/year
Pennsylvania Western District Court · 1945–1976
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 · 1968–1970
- PennsylvaniaState senator · 1941–1945
- Washington County, PennsylvaniaFirst assistant district attorney · 1936–1944
- Private practice, Washington, Pennsylvania1929–1936
- Retail Credit Company, Washington, PennsylvaniaInvestigator · 1929–1936
Appointments
1945–1976 · Appointed by Harry S Truman (Democratic)Term ended: Death
Education
- Ohio State University College of Law (now Michael E. Moritz College of Law)LL.B. · 1929