Who appointed Charles B. Kornmann?

President William J. Clinton appointed Charles B. Kornmann to the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota in 1995.

Was Charles B. Kornmann appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?

Charles B. Kornmann was appointed by President William J. Clinton, a Democrat. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.

What was Charles B. Kornmann's confirmation vote?

Charles B. Kornmann was confirmed by voice vote on March 24, 1995. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.

District of South Dakota / Appointed 1995 / Senior status since 2008

Charles B. Kornmann

Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Appointed by President William J. Clinton in 1995 and confirmed by voice vote, Charles B. Kornmann is a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota. He earned a law degree from Georgetown College (now Georgetown University) Law Center in 1962. Rulings & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1937 · age 89
Appointed by: William J. Clinton, 1995
Confirmed: by voice vote
Education: College of St. Thomas 1959 · Georgetown College (now Georgetown) Law Center 1962
Succeeded: John Bailey Jones
Succeeded by: Roberto Antonio Lange

Federal judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1995	District of South Dakota succeeded John Bailey Jones	Clinton (D)	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

College of St. Thomas	B.A.	1959
Georgetown College (now Georgetown University) Law Center	LL.B.	1962

Judicial Record

Caseload & case types

In our data, Kornmann was assigned 1,627 district-court cases (1990–2026). Median time from filing to termination: 163 days across 1,515 closed cases.

Property torts21%

Personal-injury torts15%

Other civil matters14%

Prisoner & habeas12%

Contract12%

Civil rights8%

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.

On appeal

Of 83 of Kornmann’s decisions reviewed on the merits by the U.S. courts of appeals in our data, 59 were affirmed, 14 reversed or vacated, and 10 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, Kornmann authored 118 published opinions for the court (1995–2010). Most cited: KRANTZ, INC. v. Nissan North America, Inc. (39 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

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
2005	KRANTZ, INC. v. Nissan North America, Inc.	408 F. Supp. 2d 854	39
1998	Gardner v. Tripp County, SD	66 F. Supp. 2d 1094	24
1999	Hanson v. North Star Mutual Insurance	71 F. Supp. 2d 1007	23
1998	Patterson Farm, Inc. v. City of Britton, SD	22 F. Supp. 2d 1085	23
2003	South Dakota Ex Rel. South Dakota Railroad Authority v. Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railway Co.	280 F. Supp. 2d 919	20
1998	Smith v. Horton Industries, Inc.	17 F. Supp. 2d 1094	20
1998	Konop v. Northwestern School District	26 F. Supp. 2d 1189	14
2007	Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe v. Kempthorne	496 F. Supp. 2d 1059	13
1999	Stanton v. State Farm Fire and Cas. Co., Inc.	78 F. Supp. 2d 1029	12
2008	Dewald v. Astrue	590 F. Supp. 2d 1184	11
2001	Big Stone Broadcasting, Inc. v. Lindbloom	161 F. Supp. 2d 1009	11
1996	United States v. Charger	918 F. Supp. 301	11
2006	Crow Creek Sioux Tribe v. Bureau of Indian Affairs	463 F. Supp. 2d 964	10
2002	Livestock Marketing Ass'n v. United States Department of Agriculture	207 F. Supp. 2d 992	10
2001	United States v. Red Bird	146 F. Supp. 2d 993	10

Showing the 15 most-cited of 118 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 Charles B. Kornmann?: President William J. Clinton appointed Charles B. Kornmann to the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota in 1995.
Was Charles B. Kornmann appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?: Charles B. Kornmann was appointed by President William J. Clinton, a Democrat. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.
What was Charles B. Kornmann's confirmation vote?: Charles B. Kornmann was confirmed by voice vote on March 24, 1995. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.
Which court is Charles B. Kornmann on?: Charles B. Kornmann is a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota.

Sources

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