Walter Cox III
2000 - Present
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Walter Cox III is a senior Article I federal judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. He joined the court on September 6, 1984, following a nomination from President Ronald Reagan. His term ended on September 18, 2000. He served as chief judge of the court from 1995 to 1999.[1]
Early life and education
A native of Anderson, S.C., Judge Cox earned his bachelor's degree from Clemson University in 1964, and his J.D. from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1967.[2]
Military career
Cox was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army in 1964. He was granted excess leave to attend law school. After completing coursework at both the U.S. Army's Judge Advocate General's school in Charlottesville, Va., and from the Defense Language Institute, Cox served as the liaison officer to the Minister for Justice for the state of Bavaria, Germany, and as liaison officer to the American embassy in Austria. Cox was discharged from military service in 1973.[2]
Professional career
In 1973, Cox joined the law firm of Jones, McIntosh, Threlkeld, Newman, and Cox as a trial lawyer. He worked at the firm until 1978.[2]
Judicial career
United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces
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| Nominee Information |
| Name: Walter T. Cox, III |
| Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces |
| Progress |
| Confirmed 29 days after nomination. |
 Nominated: June 28, 1984
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| Questionnaire: |
| Hearing: July 26, 1984
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| Reported: July 26, 1984
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| Confirmed: July 27, 1984
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| Vote: Voice
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Cox was nominated by President Ronald Reagan to the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces on June 28, 1984, to a seat vacated by Judge William Holmes Cook. Hearings on his nomination were held in the United States Senate Committee on Armed Services on July 26, 1984. Cox's nomination was reported by U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.), on July 26, 1984. Cox was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on July 27, 1984, on a voice vote. He served as chief judge of the court from 1995 to 1999. His term expired on September 18, 2000. He was succeeded on the court by Judge James E. Baker.[3][4][5]
10th Circuit Court of South Carolina
In 1978, Cox was elected as a judge of the 10th Circuit in South Carolina. He served on that court until 1984 upon his elevation to the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces.[2][6]
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, "Judges," accessed May 20, 2016
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Washington University of St. Louis, "Walter T. Cox III, Senior Judge," accessed May 20, 2016
- ↑ United States Congress, "PN 979 - Walter T. Cox III — The Judiciary," accessed May 20, 2016
- ↑ United States Congress, "PN 1008 - James Edgar Baker - The Judiciary," accessed May 18, 2016
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedaf - ↑ America Pink, "Walter T. Cox III," accessed May 20, 2016
| Political offices | ||
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| Preceded by: William Holmes Cook |
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces 1984–2000 |
Succeeded by: James E. Baker
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| 1981 |
Bartlett • Beam • Becker • Bork • Cacheris • Cardamone • Chapman • Coughenour • Cox • Crow • Cyr • Doumar • Eschbach • Forrester • Garwood • Gibson • Glasser • Hall • Hamilton • Head • Jones • Kiser • Krenzler • Lee • Magnuson • McLaughlin • Miner • Moore • Nowlin • O'Connor • Pierce • Posner • Potter • Russell • Ryan • Shabaz • Sprizzo • Stevens • Waters • Wilhoit • Wilkins • Winter | ||
| 1982 |
Acker • Acosta • Altimari • Bell • Bissell • Black • Bullock • Caldwell • Coffey • Contie • Coyle • Dowd • Fagg • Fong • Fox • Gadbois • Gibson • Ginsburg • Hart • Higginbotham • Hogan • Irving • Jackson • Jolly • Kanne • Kovachevich • Krupansky • Lynch • Mansmann • McNamara • Mencer • Mentz • Mihm • Moody • Nordberg • Paul • Pieras • Plunkett • Porfilio • Potter • Pratt • Rafeedie • Restani • Roberts • Scalia • Selya • Telesca • Wellford | ||
| 1983 |
Baldock • Barbour • Barry • Bowman • Carman • Carter • Curran • Davis • Dorsey • Feldman • Fish • Flaum • Gibbons • Hallanan • Harris • Hinojosa • Hull • Hupp • Katz • Keenan • Kelly • Kram • Laffitte • Limbaugh, Sr. • Limbaugh, Sr. • Milburn • Nesbitt • Nevas • O'Neill • Rymer • Sharp • Starr • Vinson • Vukasin • Wexler • Woods | ||
| 1984 |
Barker • Beezer • Biggers • Billings • Bissell • Boyle • Brewster • Browning • DiCarlo • Duhe • Garcia • George • Hall • Hargrove • Higgins • Hill • Holland • Ideman • Jarvis • Keller • Leavy • Lee • Legge • Leisure • Little • Livaudais • Longobardi • McKibben • Milburn • Newman • Norgle • Prado • Rea • Rosenblatt • Rovner • Scirica • Smith, Jr. • Sneeden • Stotler • Suhrheinrich • Torruella • Wiggins • Wilkinson | ||
| 1985 |
Alley • Altimari • Anderson • Aquilino • Archer • Arnold • Baldock • Batchelder • Battey • Broomfield • Brown • Brown • Brunetti • Buckley • Cobb • Conmy • Cowen • Davidson • Dimmick • Duff • Easterbrook • Edgar • Farnan • Fernandez • Fitzpatrick • Fuste • Greene • Gunn • Guy • Hall • Hilton • Holderman • Hughes • Johnson • Jones • Korman • Kozinski • La Plata • Leinenweber • Letts • Lovell • Ludwig • Maloney • Mansmann • Marcus • McDonald • Meredith • Miller • Mills • Miner • Motz • Nelson • Noonan • Porfilio • Revercomb • Rhoades • Ripple • Rodriguez • Rosenbaum • Roth • Ryan • Sam • Scott • Sentelle • Silberman • Sporkin • Stanton • Stapleton • Strand • Strom • Tacha • Tevrizian • Thompson • Todd • Tsoucalas • Walker • Walter • Weber • Williams • Wilson • Wingate • Wolf • Wollman • Young • Zloch | ||
| 1986 |
Anderson • Boggs • Bryan • Cedarbaum • Cholakis • Conway • Davies • Dearie • Dubina • Duggan • Edmondson • Fawsett • Fitzwater • Gex • Graham • Hackett • Hansen • Henderson • Hittner • Howard • Jensen • Kay • Kleinfeld • Kosik • Lagueux • Lechner • Magill • Mahoney • Manion • McAvoy • McQuade • Norris • O'Scannlain • Rehnquist • Ryskamp • Scalia • Selya • Simpson • Smalkin • Spencer • Stiehl • Wilkins • Williams • Woodlock • Zatkoff | ||
| 1987 |
Alesia • Beam • Bell • Conboy • Cowen • Cummings • Daronco • Doty • Dwyer • Ebel • Ellis • Gadola • Gawthrop • Greenberg • Harrington • Howard • Hoyt • Hutchinson • Kanne • Kelly • Larimer • Leavy • Lew • Marsh • Mayer • McKinney • Michel • Mukasey • Musgrave • Niemeyer • Parker • Phillips • Politan • Pro • Raggi • Reasoner • Reed • Scirica • Sentelle • Smith • Smith • Stadtmueller • Standish • Tinder • Torres • Trott • Turner • Van Antwerpen • Voorhees • Webb • Whipple • Wolin • Wolle • Wood • Zagel | ||
| 1988 |
Arcara • Babcock • Brorby • Butler • Cambridge • Camp • Conlon • Cox • Dubois • Duhe • Ezra • Forester • Friedman • Garza • Hutton • Jordan • Kennedy • Lake • Lamberth • Lifland • Lozano • Marovich • Nygaard • Patterson • Schell • Smith • Smith • Tilley • Waldman • Zilly | ||
