Who appointed Conrad Keefe Cyr?

President George H.W. Bush appointed Conrad Keefe Cyr to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in 1989.

Was Conrad Keefe Cyr appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?

Conrad Keefe Cyr 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 Conrad Keefe Cyr's confirmation vote?

Conrad Keefe Cyr was confirmed by voice vote on October 24, 1989. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.

First Circuit / Appointed 1989 / Served to 2016

Conrad Keefe Cyr

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

Appointed by President George H.W. Bush in 1989 and confirmed by voice vote, Conrad Keefe Cyr was a Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. He earned a law degree from Yale Law School in 1956. He previously served on the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1931–2016
Appointed by: George H.W. Bush, 1989
Confirmed: by voice vote
Education: College of the Holy Cross 1953 · Yale Law School 1956
Succeeded: Frank Morey Coffin
Succeeded by: Kermit Victor Lipez

Federal judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1981	District of Maine succeeded George John Mitchell	Reagan (R)	Voice vote
1989	First Circuit succeeded Frank Morey Coffin	G.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

College of the Holy Cross	B.S.	1953
Yale Law School	J.D.	1956

Judicial Record

Caseload & case types

In our data, Cyr was assigned 259 district-court cases (1977–1989). Median time from filing to termination: 490 days across 259 closed cases.

Personal-injury torts28%

Contract19%

Prisoner & habeas11%

Real property11%

Social Security8%

Civil rights6%

Other17%

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, Cyr authored 87 published opinions for the court (1981–1989). Most cited: In Re Stevens (38 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
1987	In Re Stevens	68 B.R. 774	38
1985	Crane v. Commissioner of Department of Agriculture, Food & Rural Resources	602 F. Supp. 280	29
1982	Hartford Financial Systems, Inc. v. Florida Software Services, Inc.	550 F. Supp. 1079	28
1982	Bangor Baptist Church v. Maine, Department of Educational & Cultural Services	549 F. Supp. 1208	22
1982	Boynton v. Casey	543 F. Supp. 995	19
1989	United States v. Daoust	728 F. Supp. 41	18
1984	Hill v. Phillips, Barratt, Kaiser Engineering Ltd.	586 F. Supp. 944	18
1984	Coughlin v. Regan	584 F. Supp. 697	18
1988	United States v. Whitty	688 F. Supp. 48	17
1985	Houk v. Furman	613 F. Supp. 1022	16
1983	Trafton v. Heckler	575 F. Supp. 742	16
1989	Sierra Club v. Marsh	714 F. Supp. 539	15
1986	Sherman v. Bowen	647 F. Supp. 700	15
1987	United States v. Pinto	671 F. Supp. 41	14
1982	Dickenson v. Petit	536 F. Supp. 1100	14

Showing the 15 most-cited of 87 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 Conrad Keefe Cyr?: President George H.W. Bush appointed Conrad Keefe Cyr to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in 1989.
Was Conrad Keefe Cyr appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?: Conrad Keefe Cyr 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 Conrad Keefe Cyr's confirmation vote?: Conrad Keefe Cyr was confirmed by voice vote on October 24, 1989. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.
Which court was Conrad Keefe Cyr on?: Conrad Keefe Cyr was a Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.

Sources

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