Who appointed David Brock Hornby?

President George H.W. Bush appointed David Brock Hornby to the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine in 1990.

Was David Brock Hornby appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?

David Brock Hornby 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 David Brock Hornby's confirmation vote?

David Brock Hornby was confirmed by voice vote on April 27, 1990. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.

District of Maine / Appointed 1990 / Senior status since 2010

David Brock Hornby

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

Appointed by President George H.W. Bush in 1990 and confirmed by voice vote, David Brock Hornby is a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine. He earned a law degree from Harvard Law School in 1969. Rulings & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1944 · age 82
Appointed by: George H.W. Bush, 1990
Confirmed: by voice vote
Education: University of Western Ontario 1965 · Harvard Law School 1969
Succeeded: Conrad Keefe Cyr
Succeeded by: Nancy Torresen

Federal judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1990	District of Maine succeeded Conrad Keefe Cyr	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

Harvard University
University of Western Ontario	B.A.	1965
Harvard Law School	J.D.	1969

Judicial Record

Caseload & case types

In our data, Hornby was assigned 4,003 district-court cases (1980–2021). Median time from filing to termination: 194 days across 4,002 closed cases.

Personal-injury torts19%

Civil rights16%

Contract16%

Prisoner & habeas10%

Real property8%

Social Security8%

Other23%

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 234 of Hornby’s decisions reviewed on the merits by the U.S. courts of appeals in our data, 207 were affirmed, 14 reversed or vacated, and 13 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, Hornby authored 439 published opinions for the court (1988–2011). Most cited: Clarke v. Blais (63 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
2007	Clarke v. Blais	473 F. Supp. 2d 124	63
2004	In Re New Motor Vehicles Canadian Export Antitrust Litigation	350 F. Supp. 2d 160	62
2010	Vining v. Astrue	720 F. Supp. 2d 126	49
2010	United States v. Douglas	746 F. Supp. 2d 220	35
2010	Prescott v. Prudential Insurance	729 F. Supp. 2d 357	32
1996	Maine Right to Life Committee, Inc. v. Federal Election Commission	914 F. Supp. 8	32
1990	Hanlin Group, Inc. v. International Minerals & Chemical Corp.	759 F. Supp. 925	29
2006	Gavrilovic v. Worldwide Language Resources, Inc.	441 F. Supp. 2d 163	28
1991	Paris Manufacturing Corp. v. Ace Hardware Corp. (In Re Paris Industries Corp.)	132 B.R. 504	25
2004	Maine Rubber International v. Environmental Management Group, Inc.	298 F. Supp. 2d 133	23
2004	Boulet v. Bangor Securities Inc.	324 F. Supp. 2d 120	22
2004	In Re New Motor Vehicles Canadian Export Antitrust Litigation	307 F. Supp. 2d 145	22
2004	Catholic Charities of Maine, Inc. v. City of Portland	304 F. Supp. 2d 77	22
2002	Brunelle v. Cytec Plastics, Inc.	225 F. Supp. 2d 67	21
2003	Danton v. Innovative Gaming Corp. of America	246 F. Supp. 2d 64	18

Showing the 15 most-cited of 439 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 Brock Hornby?: President George H.W. Bush appointed David Brock Hornby to the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine in 1990.
Was David Brock Hornby appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?: David Brock Hornby 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 David Brock Hornby's confirmation vote?: David Brock Hornby was confirmed by voice vote on April 27, 1990. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.
Which court is David Brock Hornby on?: David Brock Hornby is a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine.

Sources

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