District of Delaware / Appointed 1992 / Served to 2002

Roderick R. McKelvie

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

Appointed by President George H.W. Bush in 1992 and confirmed by voice vote, Roderick R. McKelvie was a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware. He earned a law degree from University of Pennsylvania Law School (now Carey Law School) in 1973. Rulings & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born
1946 · age 80
Appointed by
George H.W. Bush, 1992
Confirmed
by voice vote
Education
Harvard 1968 · University of Pennsylvania Law School (now Carey Law School) 1973
Succeeded by
Kent A. Jordan

Federal judicial service

YearCourtAppointed byVote
1992District of DelawareG.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

Judicial Record

Caseload & case types

In our data, McKelvie was assigned 1,675 district-court cases (1983–2002). Median time from filing to termination: 268 days across 1,675 closed cases.

Prisoner & habeas36%
Civil rights12%
Contract11%
Intellectual property10%
Personal-injury torts9%
Bankruptcy6%
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.

In our data, McKelvie authored 147 published opinions for the court (1993–2002). Most cited: Peltz v. Hatten (67 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A selective record from published opinions in the CourtListener corpus, not every ruling; most unpublished district orders are not included.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

Showing the 15 most-cited of 147 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 Roderick R. McKelvie?
President George H.W. Bush appointed Roderick R. McKelvie to the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware in 1992.
Was Roderick R. McKelvie appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?
Roderick R. McKelvie 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 Roderick R. McKelvie's confirmation vote?
Roderick R. McKelvie was confirmed by voice vote on February 27, 1992. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.
Which court was Roderick R. McKelvie on?
Roderick R. McKelvie was a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware.

Sources

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