Who appointed James G. Carr?

President William J. Clinton appointed James G. Carr to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio in 1994.

Was James G. Carr appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?

James G. Carr was appointed by President William J. Clinton, a Democrat. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.

What was James G. Carr's confirmation vote?

James G. Carr was confirmed by voice vote on May 6, 1994. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.

Northern District of Ohio / Appointed 1994 / Senior status since 2010

James G. Carr

Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio

Appointed by President William J. Clinton in 1994 and confirmed by voice vote, James G. Carr is a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. He earned a law degree from Harvard Law School in 1969. Rulings & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1940 · age 86
Appointed by: William J. Clinton, 1994
Confirmed: by voice vote
Education: Kenyon College 1966 · Harvard Law School 1969
Succeeded: Richard B. McQuade Jr.
Succeeded by: Jeffrey James Helmick

Federal judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1994	Northern District of Ohio succeeded Richard B. McQuade 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

Kenyon College	B.A.	1966
Harvard Law School	LL.B.	1969

Judicial Record

Caseload & case types

In our data, Carr was assigned 17,153 district-court cases (1979–2025). Median time from filing to termination: 398 days across 17,138 closed cases.

Personal-injury torts71%

Civil rights6%

Labor & ERISA4%

Contract4%

Other federal statutes4%

Prisoner & habeas3%

Other7%

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 301 of Carr’s decisions reviewed on the merits by the U.S. courts of appeals in our data, 239 were affirmed, 32 reversed or vacated, and 30 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, Carr authored 446 published opinions for the court (1990–2011). Most cited: McConocha v. Blue Cross and Blue Shield Mut. of Ohio (84 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	McConocha v. Blue Cross and Blue Shield Mut. of Ohio	930 F. Supp. 1182	84
2003	Baston v. Bagley	282 F. Supp. 2d 655	51
2006	Randleman v. Fidelity National Title Insurance	465 F. Supp. 2d 812	38
2002	White v. City of Toledo	217 F. Supp. 2d 838	37
2009	Horen v. BOARD OF EDUC. OF TOLEDO CITY SCH. DIST.	594 F. Supp. 2d 833	33
2003	Davie v. Mitchell	291 F. Supp. 2d 573	33
1998	Trumbull v. Century Marketing Corp.	12 F. Supp. 2d 683	33
2003	DeNune v. Consolidated Capital of North America, Inc.	288 F. Supp. 2d 844	32
2007	Federal Insurance v. Webne	513 F. Supp. 2d 921	29
2003	Hunter v. Ohio Veterans Home	272 F. Supp. 2d 692	29
2003	Taylor v. Mitchell	296 F. Supp. 2d 784	29
2003	Walsh v. Erie County Department of Job & Family Services	240 F. Supp. 2d 731	26
2000	Burns v. Prudential Securities	116 F. Supp. 2d 917	23
2009	Joseph v. Baxter International Inc.	614 F. Supp. 2d 868	21
2003	Jastremski v. Safeco Ins. Companies	243 F. Supp. 2d 743	21

Showing the 15 most-cited of 446 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 James G. Carr?: President William J. Clinton appointed James G. Carr to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio in 1994.
Was James G. Carr appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?: James G. Carr was appointed by President William J. Clinton, a Democrat. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.
What was James G. Carr's confirmation vote?: James G. Carr was confirmed by voice vote on May 6, 1994. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.
Which court is James G. Carr on?: James G. Carr is a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.

Sources

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