Who appointed Mary Little Cooper?

President George H.W. Bush appointed Mary Little Cooper to the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey in 1992.

Was Mary Little Cooper appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?

Mary Little Cooper 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 Mary Little Cooper's confirmation vote?

Mary Little Cooper was confirmed by voice vote on February 27, 1992. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.

District of New Jersey / Appointed 1992 / Senior status since 2011

Mary Little Cooper

Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Appointed by President George H.W. Bush in 1992 and confirmed by voice vote, Mary Little Cooper is a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. She earned a law degree from Villanova University School of Law in 1972. Rulings & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1946 · age 80
Appointed by: George H.W. Bush, 1992
Confirmed: by voice vote
Education: Bryn Mawr College 1968 · Villanova Law 1972
Succeeded by: Michael Andre Shipp

Federal judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1992	District of New Jersey	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

Bryn Mawr College	A.B.	1968
Villanova University School of Law	J.D.	1972

Judicial Record

Caseload & case types

In our data, Cooper was assigned 6,485 district-court cases (1986–2017). Median time from filing to termination: 210 days across 6,479 closed cases.

Contract18%

Personal-injury torts16%

Prisoner & habeas13%

Civil rights12%

Labor & ERISA10%

Other federal statutes8%

Other23%

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 126 of Cooper’s decisions reviewed on the merits by the U.S. courts of appeals in our data, 107 were affirmed, 12 reversed or vacated, and 7 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, Cooper authored 94 published opinions for the court (1998–2010). Most cited: Marks v. Struble (101 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
2004	Marks v. Struble	347 F. Supp. 2d 136	101
2002	Bracco Diagnostics Inc. v. Bergen Brunswig Drug Co.	226 F. Supp. 2d 557	74
2000	Pharmaceutical Sales and Consulting Corp. v. JWS Delavau Co., Inc.	106 F. Supp. 2d 761	47
2001	Entrekin v. Fisher Scientific Inc.	146 F. Supp. 2d 594	45
2001	LG Electronics Inc. v. First International Computer, Inc.	138 F. Supp. 2d 574	43
2008	D.G. v. Somerset Hills School District	559 F. Supp. 2d 484	37
2000	Duffy v. Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.	123 F. Supp. 2d 802	31
2000	St. Clair v. Beneficial Mortgage Co. (In Re St. Clair)	251 B.R. 660	28
2006	Acevedo v. Monsignor Donovan High School	420 F. Supp. 2d 337	25
2000	Tehan v. Disability Management Services, Inc.	111 F. Supp. 2d 542	25
2009	National Reprographics, Inc. v. Strom	621 F. Supp. 2d 204	24
2002	Brown Ex Rel. Estate of Brown v. Philip Morris, Inc.	228 F. Supp. 2d 506	24
2008	New Jersey Protection & Advocacy, Inc. v. New Jersey Department of Education	563 F. Supp. 2d 474	20
2003	Knauss v. Dwek	289 F. Supp. 2d 546	20
2003	Borawski v. Henderson	265 F. Supp. 2d 475	20

Showing the 15 most-cited of 94 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 Mary Little Cooper?: President George H.W. Bush appointed Mary Little Cooper to the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey in 1992.
Was Mary Little Cooper appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?: Mary Little Cooper 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 Mary Little Cooper's confirmation vote?: Mary Little Cooper was confirmed by voice vote on February 27, 1992. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.
Which court is Mary Little Cooper on?: Mary Little Cooper is a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.

Sources

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