Boyce Ficklen Martin Jr.

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

Appointed by President Jimmy Carter in 1979 and confirmed by voice vote, Boyce Ficklen Martin Jr. was a Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. He earned a law degree from University of Virginia School of Law in 1963. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived

1935–2016

Appointed by

Jimmy Carter, 1979

Confirmed

by voice vote

Education

Davidson College 1957 · University of Virginia Law 1963

Succeeded by

Amul Roger Thapar

Federal judicial service

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

In our data, Martin authored 1 published opinion for the court (2009).

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 1 most-cited of 1 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 Boyce Ficklen Martin Jr.?

President Jimmy Carter appointed Boyce Ficklen Martin Jr. to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in 1979.

Was Boyce Ficklen Martin Jr. appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?

Boyce Ficklen Martin Jr. was appointed by President Jimmy Carter, a Democrat. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.

What was Boyce Ficklen Martin Jr.'s confirmation vote?

Boyce Ficklen Martin Jr. was confirmed by voice vote on September 25, 1979. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.

Which court was Boyce Ficklen Martin Jr. on?

Boyce Ficklen Martin Jr. was a Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

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