Second Circuit / Appointed 2001 / Senior status since 2009

Barrington Daniels Parker Jr.

Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

Appointed by President George W. Bush in 2001 and confirmed by the Senate 1000, Barrington Daniels Parker Jr. is a Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He earned a law degree from Yale Law School in 1969. He previously served on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born
1944 · age 82
Appointed by
George W. Bush, 2001
Confirmed
100–0
Education
Yale College 1965 · Yale Law School 1969
Succeeded by
Susan Laura Carney

Federal judicial service

YearCourtAppointed byVote
1994Southern District of New YorkClinton (D)Voice vote
2001Second CircuitG.W. Bush (R)100–0

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

Nomination Confirmed 1000 on October 11, 2001 · 107th Congress, Roll Call 297. Each senator links to their judicial-voting record.

Voted to confirm · 100

50 D, 49 R, 1 I

Education

Judicial Record

Caseload & case types

In our data, Parker was assigned 1,942 district-court cases (1993–2001). Median time from filing to termination: 212 days across 1,942 closed cases.

Civil rights24%
Personal-injury torts14%
Contract13%
Labor & ERISA13%
Other federal statutes12%
Bankruptcy6%
Other19%

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.

In our data, Parker authored 223 published opinions for the court (1994–2010). Most cited: Moray v. City of Yonkers (73 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge.

Selected opinions

Showing the 15 most-cited of 223 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 Barrington Daniels Parker Jr.?
President George W. Bush appointed Barrington Daniels Parker Jr. to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in 2001.
Was Barrington Daniels Parker Jr. appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?
Barrington Daniels Parker Jr. was appointed by President George W. Bush, a Republican. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.
What was Barrington Daniels Parker Jr.'s confirmation vote?
The Senate confirmed Barrington Daniels Parker Jr. 100–0 on October 11, 2001.
Which court is Barrington Daniels Parker Jr. on?
Barrington Daniels Parker Jr. is a Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Sources

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24 years on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Data as of 2026-08-10. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).