Who appointed Kenneth L. Ryskamp?

President Ronald Reagan appointed Kenneth L. Ryskamp to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida in 1986.

Was Kenneth L. Ryskamp appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?

Kenneth L. Ryskamp was appointed by President Ronald Reagan, a Republican. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.

What was Kenneth L. Ryskamp's confirmation vote?

Kenneth L. Ryskamp was confirmed by voice vote on April 23, 1986. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.

Southern District of Florida / Appointed 1986 / Served to 2017

Kenneth L. Ryskamp

Judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1986 and confirmed by voice vote, Kenneth L. Ryskamp was a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. He earned a law degree from University of Miami School of Law in 1956. Rulings & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1932–2017
Appointed by: Ronald Reagan, 1986
Confirmed: by voice vote
Education: Calvin College 1955 · University of Miami Law 1956
Succeeded: Joseph Oscar Eaton
Succeeded by: Paul C. Huck

Federal judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1986	Southern District of Florida succeeded Joseph Oscar Eaton	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

Calvin College	A.B.	1955
University of Miami School of Law	J.D.	1956

Judicial Record

Caseload & case types

In our data, Ryskamp was assigned 7,120 district-court cases (1975–2016). Median time from filing to termination: 206 days across 7,118 closed cases.

Contract23%

Prisoner & habeas15%

Civil rights15%

Labor & ERISA14%

Other federal statutes8%

Personal-injury torts8%

Other18%

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 207 of Ryskamp’s decisions reviewed on the merits by the U.S. courts of appeals in our data, 178 were affirmed, 21 reversed or vacated, and 8 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, Ryskamp authored 115 published opinions for the court (1986–2011). Most cited: Morrison v. Executive Aircraft Refinishing, Inc. (94 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
2005	Morrison v. Executive Aircraft Refinishing, Inc.	434 F. Supp. 2d 1314	94
1999	Eclipse Medical, Inc. v. American Hydro-Surgical Instruments, Inc.	262 F. Supp. 2d 1334	59
1997	Eastman Kodak Co. v. Kavlin	978 F. Supp. 1078	51
1996	Mallory v. Harkness	923 F. Supp. 1546	42
1994	Concerned Parents to Save Dreher Park Center v. City of West Palm Beach	846 F. Supp. 986	37
1995	Vargas v. Peltz	901 F. Supp. 1572	33
2004	Moore v. Tractor Supply Co.	352 F. Supp. 2d 1268	25
2000	Crowell v. Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Services, Co.	87 F. Supp. 2d 1287	23
1996	Martinez v. Weyerhaeuser Mortgage Co.	959 F. Supp. 1511	21
1993	Chikovsky v. Ortho Pharmaceutical Corp.	832 F. Supp. 341	20
1996	Bledsoe v. Palm Beach Soil & Water Conservation District	942 F. Supp. 1439	19
2009	Dent v. Giaimo	606 F. Supp. 2d 1357	18
2004	Warter v. Boston Securities, S.A.	380 F. Supp. 2d 1299	18
1986	Judson v. International Terminal Operating Co. (In Re Oro Import Co.)	69 B.R. 6	18
1999	Warner v. City of Boca Raton	64 F. Supp. 2d 1272	17

Showing the 15 most-cited of 115 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 Kenneth L. Ryskamp?: President Ronald Reagan appointed Kenneth L. Ryskamp to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida in 1986.
Was Kenneth L. Ryskamp appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?: Kenneth L. Ryskamp was appointed by President Ronald Reagan, a Republican. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.
What was Kenneth L. Ryskamp's confirmation vote?: Kenneth L. Ryskamp was confirmed by voice vote on April 23, 1986. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.
Which court was Kenneth L. Ryskamp on?: Kenneth L. Ryskamp was a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Sources

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