Who appointed George Cheney Pratt?

President Ronald Reagan appointed George Cheney Pratt to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in 1982.

Was George Cheney Pratt appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?

George Cheney Pratt was appointed by President Ronald Reagan, a Republican. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.

What was George Cheney Pratt's confirmation vote?

George Cheney Pratt was confirmed by voice vote on June 18, 1982. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.

Second Circuit / Appointed 1982 / Served to 1995

George Cheney Pratt

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

Appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1982 and confirmed by voice vote, George Cheney Pratt was a Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He earned a law degree from Yale Law School in 1953. He previously served on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1928–2025
Appointed by: Ronald Reagan, 1982
Confirmed: by voice vote
Education: Yale 1950 · Yale Law School 1953
Succeeded: William Homer Timbers
Succeeded by: Pierre Nelson Leval

Federal judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1976	Eastern District of New York succeeded Anthony John Travia	Ford (R)	Voice vote
1982	Second Circuit succeeded William Homer Timbers	Reagan (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

Yale University	B.A.	1950
Yale Law School	J.D.	1953

Judicial Record

Caseload & case types

In our data, Pratt was assigned 71 district-court cases (1965–1990).

Criminal96%

Other federal statutes3%

Personal-injury torts1%

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, Pratt authored 72 published opinions for the court (1976–1993). Most cited: Computer Associates International, Inc. v. Altai, Inc. (36 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
1991	Computer Associates International, Inc. v. Altai, Inc.	775 F. Supp. 544	36
1982	Environmental Defense Fund, Inc. v. Watt	554 F. Supp. 36	35
1979	Zeller v. United States	467 F. Supp. 487	35
1982	Neale v. Dillon	534 F. Supp. 1381	32
1982	MacDonald v. Schweiker	553 F. Supp. 536	26
1980	Doe v. County of Suffolks	494 F. Supp. 179	26
–	Opinion	475 F. Supp. 928	26
1983	In Re Agent Orange Product Liability Litigation	565 F. Supp. 1263	25
1982	Ryan v. Cleland	531 F. Supp. 724	25
1981	United States v. Myers	527 F. Supp. 1206	25
1981	DiPierro v. Taddeo (In Re Taddeo)	15 B.R. 273	24
1978	Chapin v. Town of Southampton	457 F. Supp. 1170	22
1983	Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. v. Liebowitz	570 F. Supp. 908	21
1979	Hempstead General Hospital v. Whalen	474 F. Supp. 398	18
1976	Markewich v. Adikes	422 F. Supp. 1144	17

Showing the 15 most-cited of 72 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 George Cheney Pratt?: President Ronald Reagan appointed George Cheney Pratt to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in 1982.
Was George Cheney Pratt appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?: George Cheney Pratt was appointed by President Ronald Reagan, a Republican. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.
What was George Cheney Pratt's confirmation vote?: George Cheney Pratt was confirmed by voice vote on June 18, 1982. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.
Which court was George Cheney Pratt on?: George Cheney Pratt was a Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Sources

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