Walter Joseph Cummings Jr. (September 29, 1916 – April 24, 1999) was a United States Solicitor General and a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
Walter Joseph Cummings
Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals
Chief Judge — U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Born 1916 in Chicago, IL
Died 1999 in Chicago, IL
FJC ID: 542
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 36/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 1,342/year
Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals · 1966–1999
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 · 1981–1986
- Private practice, Chicago, Illinois1946–1966
Solicitor general of the United States1952–1953- U.S. Department of JusticeAssistant solicitor general and special assistant attorney general · 1940–1946
Appointments
1966–1999 · Appointed by Lyndon B. Johnson (Democratic)Term ended: Death
Education
LL.B. · 1940- Yale UniversityB.A. · 1937