Who appointed Joseph H. Young?

President Richard M. Nixon appointed Joseph H. Young to the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland in 1971.

Was Joseph H. Young appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?

Joseph H. Young was appointed by President Richard M. Nixon, a Republican. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.

What was Joseph H. Young's confirmation vote?

Joseph H. Young was confirmed by voice vote on July 29, 1971. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.

District of Maryland / Appointed 1971 / Served to 2015

Joseph H. Young

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

Appointed by President Richard M. Nixon in 1971 and confirmed by voice vote, Joseph H. Young was a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. He earned a law degree from University of Virginia School of Law in 1951. Rulings & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1922–2015
Appointed by: Richard M. Nixon, 1971
Confirmed: by voice vote
Education: Dartmouth College 1948 · University of Virginia Law 1951
Succeeded: Robert Dorsey Watkins
Succeeded by: Marvin J. Garbis

Federal judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1971	District of Maryland succeeded Robert Dorsey Watkins	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

Dartmouth College	A.B.	1948
University of Virginia School of Law	LL.B.	1951

Judicial Record

Caseload & case types

In our data, Young was assigned 1,582 district-court cases (1980–2008). Median time from filing to termination: 226 days across 1,581 closed cases.

Personal-injury torts30%

Contract18%

Civil rights15%

Labor & ERISA8%

Other federal statutes7%

Prisoner & habeas5%

Other17%

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, Young authored 352 published opinions for the court (1971–2000). Most cited: Furness v. Lilienfield (89 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A selective record from published opinions in the CourtListener corpus, not every ruling; most unpublished district orders are not included.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
1983	Furness v. Lilienfield	35 B.R. 1006	89
1984	Federal Sav. and Loan Ins. Corp. v. Williams	599 F. Supp. 1184	80
1999	Spencer v. Hendersen-Webb, Inc.	81 F. Supp. 2d 582	61
1978	Quinn v. Bowmar Publishing Co.	445 F. Supp. 780	58
1982	Juncker v. Tinney	549 F. Supp. 574	53
1983	Maryland Ex Rel. Sachs v. Mid-Atlantic Toyota Distributors, Inc.	564 F. Supp. 1379	51
1973	Harper v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore	359 F. Supp. 1187	51
1985	Chesapeake Bay Foundation v. Bethlehem Steel Corp.	608 F. Supp. 440	50
1980	Brink v. DaLesio	496 F. Supp. 1350	45
1978	McCargo v. Mister	462 F. Supp. 813	45
1981	Maryland Ex Rel. Sachs v. Mid-Atlantic Toyota Distributors, Inc.	525 F. Supp. 1265	42
1975	Johnson v. Helicopter & Airplane Services Corp.	404 F. Supp. 726	40
1993	Pack v. AC AND S, INC.	838 F. Supp. 1099	36
1986	United States v. Dickerson	640 F. Supp. 448	36
1985	Pyramid Condominium Ass'n. v. Morgan	606 F. Supp. 592	35

Showing the 15 most-cited of 352 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 Joseph H. Young?: President Richard M. Nixon appointed Joseph H. Young to the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland in 1971.
Was Joseph H. Young appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?: Joseph H. Young was appointed by President Richard M. Nixon, a Republican. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.
What was Joseph H. Young's confirmation vote?: Joseph H. Young was confirmed by voice vote on July 29, 1971. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.
Which court was Joseph H. Young on?: Joseph H. Young was a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland.

Sources

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