Who appointed David Keith Winder?

President Jimmy Carter appointed David Keith Winder to the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah in 1979.

Was David Keith Winder appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?

David Keith Winder was appointed by President Jimmy Carter, a Democrat. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.

What was David Keith Winder's confirmation vote?

David Keith Winder was confirmed by voice vote on December 4, 1979. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.

District of Utah / Appointed 1979 / Served to 2009

David Keith Winder

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

Appointed by President Jimmy Carter in 1979 and confirmed by voice vote, David Keith Winder was a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah. He earned a law degree from Stanford Law School in 1958. Rulings & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1932–2009
Appointed by: Jimmy Carter, 1979
Confirmed: by voice vote
Education: University of Utah 1955 · Stanford Law School 1958
Succeeded by: Dale A. Kimball

Federal judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1979	District of Utah	Carter (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 Utah	B.A.	1955
Stanford Law School	LL.B.	1958

Judicial Record

Caseload & case types

In our data, Winder was assigned 1,729 district-court cases (1981–2006). Median time from filing to termination: 310 days across 1,728 closed cases.

Prisoner & habeas21%

Contract19%

Personal-injury torts11%

Civil rights11%

Other federal statutes7%

Bankruptcy6%

Other24%

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, Winder authored 136 published opinions for the court (1980–2005). Most cited: Merrill v. Allen (In Re Universal Clearing House Co.) (67 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A selective record from published opinions in the CourtListener corpus, not every ruling; most unpublished district orders are not included.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
1986	Merrill v. Allen (In Re Universal Clearing House Co.)	60 B.R. 985	67
1986	Merril v. Dietz (In Re Universal Clearing House Co.)	62 B.R. 118	62
1988	Boisjoly v. Morton Thiokol, Inc.	706 F. Supp. 795	46
1984	Andrews v. Shulsen	600 F. Supp. 408	44
1982	OPERATING ENGINEERS LOCAL U. NO. 3, ETC. v. Bohn	541 F. Supp. 486	35
1988	Orem Postal Credit Union v. Twitchell (In Re Twitchell)	91 B.R. 961	32
1988	Utah State Credit Union v. Skinner (In Re Skinner)	90 B.R. 470	30
1996	American Concept Insurance v. Jones	935 F. Supp. 1220	28
1985	Society of Professional Journalists v. Secretary of Labor	616 F. Supp. 569	28
1993	Rushton v. Philadelphia Forest Products, Inc. (In Re Americana Expressways, Inc.)	161 B.R. 707	27
1989	Castleglen, Inc. v. Commonwealth Savings Ass'n	728 F. Supp. 656	27
1984	In Re Auto West, Inc.	43 B.R. 761	27
1992	Jachim v. KUTV INC.	783 F. Supp. 1328	26
1990	O'DRISCOLL v. Hercules, Inc.	745 F. Supp. 656	26
1988	American Community Services, Inc. v. Wright Marketing, Inc. (In Re American Community Services, Inc.)	86 B.R. 681	26

Showing the 15 most-cited of 136 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 Keith Winder?: President Jimmy Carter appointed David Keith Winder to the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah in 1979.
Was David Keith Winder appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?: David Keith Winder was appointed by President Jimmy Carter, a Democrat. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.
What was David Keith Winder's confirmation vote?: David Keith Winder was confirmed by voice vote on December 4, 1979. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.
Which court was David Keith Winder on?: David Keith Winder was a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah.

Sources

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