Who appointed David Warner Hagen?

President William J. Clinton appointed David Warner Hagen to the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada in 1993.

Was David Warner Hagen appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?

David Warner Hagen was appointed by President William J. Clinton, a Democrat. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.

What was David Warner Hagen's confirmation vote?

David Warner Hagen was confirmed by voice vote on November 20, 1993. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.

District of Nevada / Appointed 1993 / Served to 2005

David Warner Hagen

Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada

Appointed by President William J. Clinton in 1993 and confirmed by voice vote, David Warner Hagen was a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada. He earned a law degree from University of San Francisco School of Law in 1959. Rulings & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1931–2022
Appointed by: William J. Clinton, 1993
Confirmed: by voice vote
Education: University of Wisconsin 1956 · University of San Francisco Law 1959
Succeeded: Edward Cornelius Reed Jr.
Succeeded by: Robert Clive Jones

Federal judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1993	District of Nevada succeeded Edward Cornelius Reed Jr.	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

University of Wisconsin Law School
University of Wisconsin	B.B.A.	1956
University of San Francisco School of Law	LL.B.	1959

Judicial Record

Caseload & case types

In our data, Hagen was assigned 2,258 district-court cases (1991–2005). Median time from filing to termination: 247 days across 2,242 closed cases.

Prisoner & habeas24%

Civil rights18%

Criminal17%

Contract13%

Other federal statutes10%

Personal-injury torts6%

Other12%

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 11 of Hagen’s decisions reviewed on the merits by the U.S. courts of appeals in our data, 8 were affirmed, 2 reversed or vacated, and 1 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, Hagen authored 41 published opinions for the court (1994–2005). Most cited: R. Griggs Group Ltd. v. Filanto Spa (30 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
1996	R. Griggs Group Ltd. v. Filanto Spa	920 F. Supp. 1100	30
2004	Mallard Automotive Group, Ltd. v. United States	343 F. Supp. 2d 949	27
1996	Tanner v. Prima Donna Resorts, Inc.	919 F. Supp. 351	15
2005	Silver State Fair Housing Council, Inc. v. ERGS, Inc.	362 F. Supp. 2d 1218	12
1999	Ilick v. Miller	68 F. Supp. 2d 1169	11
1998	American Civil Liberties Union v. City of Las Vegas	13 F. Supp. 2d 1064	11
1995	United States v. Cantrell	888 F. Supp. 1055	11
1994	Hoag v. Sweetwater International	857 F. Supp. 1420	11
1996	Snell v. Reno Hilton Resort	930 F. Supp. 1428	10
1998	Palmer v. Pioneer Hotel & Casino	19 F. Supp. 2d 1157	9
2002	General Motors Corp. v. Let's Make a Deal	223 F. Supp. 2d 1183	8
1997	Fortis Benefits Insurance v. Johnson	966 F. Supp. 987	8
2004	Western Land Exchange Project v. United States Bureau of Land Management	315 F. Supp. 2d 1068	7
2003	Nichols v. Mayflower Transit, LLC	368 F. Supp. 2d 1104	7
2003	Montana v. Goldin (In Re Pegasus Gold Corp.)	296 B.R. 227	7

Showing the 15 most-cited of 41 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 David Warner Hagen?: President William J. Clinton appointed David Warner Hagen to the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada in 1993.
Was David Warner Hagen appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?: David Warner Hagen was appointed by President William J. Clinton, a Democrat. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.
What was David Warner Hagen's confirmation vote?: David Warner Hagen was confirmed by voice vote on November 20, 1993. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.
Which court was David Warner Hagen on?: David Warner Hagen was a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada.

Sources

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