Charles Willis Pickering Sr.
Appointed by President George W. Bush in 2004, Charles Willis Pickering Sr. was a Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He earned a law degree from University of Mississippi School of Law in 1961. He previously served on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓
- Born
- 1937 · age 89
- Appointed by
- George W. Bush, 2004
- Confirmed
- No recorded vote
- Education
- University of Mississippi 1959 · University of Mississippi Law 1961
- Succeeded
- Henry Anthony Politz
- Succeeded by
- Leslie Southwick
Federal judicial service
| Year | Court | Appointed by | Vote |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Southern District of Mississippi succeeded Walter Louis Nixon Jr. | G.H.W. Bush (R) | Voice vote |
| 2004 | Fifth Circuit succeeded Henry Anthony Politz | G.W. Bush (R) | – |
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
| Jones County Junior College | A.A. | 1957 |
| University of Mississippi | B.A. | 1959 |
| University of Mississippi School of Law | LL.B. | 1961 |
Judicial Record
Caseload & case types
In our data, Pickering was assigned 4,418 district-court cases (1987–2004). Median time from filing to termination: 223 days across 4,418 closed cases.
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, Pickering authored 69 published opinions for the court (1990–2004). Most cited: Merchants Co. v. American Motorists Insurance (48 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
| Year | Case | Citation | Cited |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | Merchants Co. v. American Motorists Insurance | 794 F. Supp. 611 | 48 |
| 1992 | Windham v. Wyeth Laboratories, Inc. | 786 F. Supp. 607 | 34 |
| 1996 | Lee v. General Motors Corp. | 950 F. Supp. 170 | 26 |
| 1996 | State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. v. Brewer | 914 F. Supp. 140 | 23 |
| 1999 | Hammond v. Coleman Co., Inc. | 61 F. Supp. 2d 533 | 18 |
| 1994 | Suggs v. Pan American Life Insurance | 847 F. Supp. 1324 | 14 |
| 1995 | Bonti v. Ford Motor Co. | 898 F. Supp. 391 | 12 |
| 1994 | McGee v. United States | 863 F. Supp. 321 | 12 |
| 1995 | Wolfe v. Dal-Tile Corp. | 876 F. Supp. 116 | 11 |
| 2002 | Rainwater v. Lamar Life Insurance | 207 F. Supp. 2d 561 | 9 |
| 2000 | Kirksey v. American Bankers Insurance Co. of Florida | 114 F. Supp. 2d 526 | 8 |
| 1995 | Merritt v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. | 911 F. Supp. 242 | 8 |
| 2004 | Jones v. Nastech Pharmaceutical | 319 F. Supp. 2d 720 | 7 |
| 1998 | Blue Diamond, Inc. v. Liberty Mutual Insurance | 21 F. Supp. 2d 631 | 7 |
| 2001 | Cullop v. Sphere Drake Insurance | 129 F. Supp. 2d 981 | 6 |
Showing the 15 most-cited of 69 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 Willis Pickering Sr.?
- President George W. Bush appointed Charles Willis Pickering Sr. to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in 2004.
- Was Charles Willis Pickering Sr. appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?
- Charles Willis Pickering Sr. was appointed by President George W. Bush, a Republican. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.
- Which court was Charles Willis Pickering Sr. on?
- Charles Willis Pickering Sr. was a Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Sources
Each fact on this page traces to a primary public record.
- FJC Biographical Directory
- Wikidata
- Portrait: Mississippi Secretary of State (Public domain), via Wikimedia Commons
- CourtListener bulk data (Free Law Project): authored opinions & citation counts
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Appointed in 2004. Data as of 2026-08-10. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).