Edmund Waddill Jr.

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

Appointed by President Warren G. Harding in 1921 and confirmed by unknown vote, Edmund Waddill Jr. was a Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. He previously served on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived

1855–1931

Appointed by

Warren G. Harding, 1921

Confirmed

by unknown vote

Succeeded

Jeter Connelly Pritchard

Succeeded by

Morris Ames Soper

Federal judicial service

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

Judicial Record

In our data, Waddill authored 1 published opinion for the court (1926). Most cited: Cooper v. United States (11 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

Showing the 1 most-cited of 1 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 Edmund Waddill Jr.?

President Warren G. Harding appointed Edmund Waddill Jr. to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in 1921.

Was Edmund Waddill Jr. appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?

Edmund Waddill Jr. was appointed by President Warren G. Harding, a Republican. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.

Which court was Edmund Waddill Jr. on?

Edmund Waddill Jr. was a Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

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