Who appointed John Feikens?

President Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed John Feikens to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.

Was John Feikens appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?

John Feikens was appointed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, a Republican. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.

Eastern District of Michigan / Appointed / Served to 2011

John Feikens

Judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Appointed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, John Feikens was a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. He earned a law degree from University of Michigan Law School in 1941. Rulings & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1917–2011
Appointed by: Dwight D. Eisenhower
Confirmed: No recorded vote
Education: Calvin College 1939 · University of Michigan Law School 1941
Succeeded: Clifford Patrick O'Sullivan
Succeeded by: Paul V. Gadola

Federal judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1961	Eastern District of Michigan succeeded Clifford Patrick O'Sullivan	Eisenhower (R)	–
1970	Eastern District of Michigan	Nixon (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

Calvin College	B.A.	1939
University of Michigan Law School	J.D.	1941

Judicial Record

Caseload & case types

In our data, Feikens was assigned 2,880 district-court cases (1977–2010). Median time from filing to termination: 230 days across 2,880 closed cases.

Contract29%

Personal-injury torts18%

Civil rights12%

Labor & ERISA11%

Other federal statutes9%

Prisoner & habeas5%

Other16%

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 23 of Feikens’s decisions reviewed on the merits by the U.S. courts of appeals in our data, 20 were affirmed, 3 reversed or vacated. 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, Feikens authored 497 published opinions for the court (1961–2010). Most cited: Overseas Motors, Inc. v. Import Motors Limited, Inc. (130 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
1974	Overseas Motors, Inc. v. Import Motors Limited, Inc.	375 F. Supp. 499	130
1976	Johnson v. Mobil Oil Corp.	415 F. Supp. 264	97
1988	Fireman's Fund Ins. Companies v. Ex-Cell-O Corp.	702 F. Supp. 1317	87
1978	Leib v. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith	461 F. Supp. 951	85
1987	Fireman's Fund Insurance Companies v. Ex-Cell-O Corp.	662 F. Supp. 71	84
1979	Glover v. Johnson	478 F. Supp. 1075	71
2010	Livonia Property Holdings, L.L.C. v. 12840-12976 Farmington Road Holdings, L.L.C.	717 F. Supp. 2d 724	70
1978	Insurance Co. of North America v. Forty-Eight Insulations, Inc.	451 F. Supp. 1230	65
1984	Jaksa v. Regents of University of Michigan	597 F. Supp. 1245	45
1979	United States v. City of Detroit	476 F. Supp. 512	38
1971	Bolanowski v. Raich	330 F. Supp. 724	37
1979	Freeman v. Kelvinator, Inc.	469 F. Supp. 999	34
1989	United States Trustee v. PHM Credit Corp. (In Re PHM Credit Corp.)	99 B.R. 762	33
1975	Structural Dynamics Research Corp. v. Engineering Mechanics Research Corp.	401 F. Supp. 1102	33
1974	Troy v. Shell Oil Company	378 F. Supp. 1042	31

Showing the 15 most-cited of 497 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 John Feikens?: President Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed John Feikens to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.
Was John Feikens appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?: John Feikens was appointed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, a Republican. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.
Which court was John Feikens on?: John Feikens was a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.

Sources

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