Who appointed Kevin Michael Moore?

President George H.W. Bush appointed Kevin Michael Moore to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida in 1992.

Was Kevin Michael Moore appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?

Kevin Michael Moore was appointed by President George H.W. Bush, a Republican. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.

What was Kevin Michael Moore's confirmation vote?

Kevin Michael Moore was confirmed by voice vote on February 6, 1992. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.

Southern District of Florida / Appointed 1992 / Active

Kevin Michael Moore

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

Appointed by President George H.W. Bush in 1992 and confirmed by voice vote, Kevin Michael Moore is a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. He earned a law degree from Fordham University School of Law in 1976. Rulings & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1951 · age 75
Appointed by: George H.W. Bush, 1992
Confirmed: by voice vote
Education: Florida State 1972 · Fordham Law 1976
Succeeded: Eugene P. Spellman

Federal judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1992	Southern District of Florida succeeded Eugene P. Spellman	G.H.W. Bush (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

Florida State University	B.A.	1972
Fordham University School of Law	J.D.	1976

Judicial Record

Caseload & case types

In our data, Moore was assigned 12,159 district-court cases (1982–2026). Median time from filing to termination: 142 days across 11,676 closed cases.

Prisoner & habeas16%

Contract16%

Civil rights16%

Other civil matters11%

Labor & ERISA10%

Personal-injury torts9%

Other22%

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 554 of Moore’s decisions reviewed on the merits by the U.S. courts of appeals in our data, 450 were affirmed, 67 reversed or vacated, and 37 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, Moore authored 237 published opinions for the court (1992–2012). Most cited: Gonzalez Ex Rel. Gonzalez v. Reno (68 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
2000	Gonzalez Ex Rel. Gonzalez v. Reno	86 F. Supp. 2d 1167	68
2001	Mason v. Smithkline Beecham Clinical Laboratories	146 F. Supp. 2d 1355	51
2001	Access Now, Inc. v. South Florida Stadium Corp.	161 F. Supp. 2d 1357	37
1995	Time Warner Cable v. Freedom Electronics, Inc.	897 F. Supp. 1454	24
2009	Hemispherx Biopharma, Inc. v. MidSouth Capital, Inc.	669 F. Supp. 2d 1353	21
2007	Instituto De Prevision Militar v. Lehman Bros., Inc.	485 F. Supp. 2d 1340	20
2007	Cellularvision Technology & Telecommunications, L.P. v. Alltel Corp.	508 F. Supp. 2d 1186	19
2007	Pepsico, Inc. v. Distribuidora La Matagalpa, Inc.	510 F. Supp. 2d 1110	18
2002	Burger King Corporation v. Hinton, Inc.	203 F. Supp. 2d 1357	17
2007	Tassinari v. Key West Water Tours, L.C.	480 F. Supp. 2d 1318	16
1997	Socialist Workers Party v. Leahy	957 F. Supp. 1262	16
2008	Smithers Construction, Inc. v. Bituminous Casualty Corp.	563 F. Supp. 2d 1345	15
2008	Ben-Yishay v. Mastercraft Development, LLC	553 F. Supp. 2d 1360	15
2005	Glen v. Club Méditerranée S.A.	365 F. Supp. 2d 1263	15
1996	Creative Tile Marketing, Inc. v. SICIS International, S.R.L.	922 F. Supp. 1534	15

Showing the 15 most-cited of 237 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 Kevin Michael Moore?: President George H.W. Bush appointed Kevin Michael Moore to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida in 1992.
Was Kevin Michael Moore appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?: Kevin Michael Moore was appointed by President George H.W. Bush, a Republican. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.
What was Kevin Michael Moore's confirmation vote?: Kevin Michael Moore was confirmed by voice vote on February 6, 1992. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.
Which court is Kevin Michael Moore on?: Kevin Michael Moore is a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Sources

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34 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).