Willie Louis Sands (born April 12, 1949) is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia.
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W[illie] Louis Sands
Chief Judge — U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia
Born 1949 in Bradley, GA
FJC ID: 2097
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 5/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 11/year
Georgia Middle District Court · 1994–2014
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
- African American
Prior employment
- Judicial Conference of the United StatesMember · 2011–2015
- Superior Court of Georgia, Macon Judicial CircuitJudge · 1991–1993
- Private practice, Macon, Georgia1987–1991
Middle District of GeorgiaAssistant U.S. attorney · 1978–1987
U.S. Army Reserve1974–1980- Macon Judicial Circuit, GeorgiaAssistant district attorney · 1975–1978
- Signal CorpsU.S. Army Reserve second lieutenant · 1974
Appointments
1994–2014 · Appointed by William J. Clinton (Democratic)
Education
- Mercer University School of LawJ.D. · 1974
- Mercer UniversityB.A. · 1971