Middle District of Florida / Appointed 1991 / Senior status since 2015

Anne C. Conway

Judge, U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Appointed by President George H.W. Bush in 1991 and confirmed by voice vote, Anne C. Conway is a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida. She earned a law degree from University of Florida College of Law (now Fredric G. Levin College of Law) in 1975. Rulings & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born
1950 · age 76
Appointed by
George H.W. Bush, 1991
Confirmed
by voice vote
Education
John Carroll 1972 · University of Florida College of Law (now Fredric G. Levin College of Law) 1975

Federal judicial service

YearCourtAppointed byVote
1991Middle District of FloridaG.H.W. Bush (R)Voice vote

Party letters show the appointing president’s party, not the judge’s own. A voice vote means the chamber approved aloud. No senator-by-senator tally is recorded.

Confirmation vote

Voice vote

The Senate approved this confirmation aloud, with no senator-by-senator tally recorded. Recorded roll-call votes begin in 1989.

Education

Judicial Record

Caseload & case types

In our data, Conway was assigned 18,787 district-court cases (1985–2026). Median time from filing to termination: 369 days across 18,634 closed cases.

Personal-injury torts45%
Prisoner & habeas15%
Contract9%
Civil rights9%
Labor & ERISA6%
Other federal statutes4%
Other12%

Case assignment is from CourtListener’s PACER-derived docket records: a partial sample, not a complete caseload, reflecting the judge last assigned each case. How we count.

On appeal

Of 455 of Conway’s decisions reviewed on the merits by the U.S. courts of appeals in our data, 383 were affirmed, 39 reversed or vacated, and 33 affirmed in part and reversed in part. This is a historical count of appellate outcomes for cases we could match, not a judgment of the judge, and not a complete record. How we count.

In our data, Conway authored 114 published opinions for the court (1992–2011). Most cited: DirecTV, Inc. v. Griffin (58 citations).

A selective record from published opinions in the CourtListener corpus, not every ruling; most unpublished district orders are not included. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge.

Recent & notable rulings

YearCaseCitationCited
2003DirecTV, Inc. v. Griffin290 F. Supp. 2d 134058
2007McGuire v. Ryland Group, Inc.497 F. Supp. 2d 135656
2003United States v. Bailey288 F. Supp. 2d 126143
2000True v. Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service108 F. Supp. 2d 136135
1995Loggerhead Turtle v. Volusia County Council896 F. Supp. 117035
2004Steven Brother v. Tiger Partner, LLC331 F. Supp. 2d 136834
2007Third Party Verification, Inc. v. Signaturelink, Inc.492 F. Supp. 2d 131430
1994Gencor Industries, Inc. v. Wausau Underwriters Insurance857 F. Supp. 156025
2008Knights Armament Co. v. Optical Systems Technology, Inc.568 F. Supp. 2d 136924
2003DirecTV, Inc. v. Cardona275 F. Supp. 2d 135723
2006Crume v. Metropolitan Life Insurance417 F. Supp. 2d 125822
2002Control Center, L.L.C. v. Lauer288 B.R. 26922
2003Veliz v. Rental Service Corp. USA, Inc.313 F. Supp. 2d 131721
1996Ayers v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.941 F. Supp. 116320
2008Zegers v. Countrywide Mortgage Ventures, LLC569 F. Supp. 2d 125919

Showing the 15 most-cited of 114 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

Who appointed Anne C. Conway?
President George H.W. Bush appointed Anne C. Conway to the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida in 1991.
Was Anne C. Conway appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?
Anne C. Conway was appointed by President George H.W. Bush, a Republican. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.
What was Anne C. Conway's confirmation vote?
Anne C. Conway was confirmed by voice vote on November 21, 1991. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.
Which court is Anne C. Conway on?
Anne C. Conway is a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida.

Sources

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34 years on the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida. Data as of 2026-08-10. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).