Northern District of Indiana / Appointed 1988 / Served to 2018

Rodolfo Lozano

Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana

Appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1988 and confirmed by voice vote, Rodolfo Lozano was a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana. He earned a law degree from Indiana University School of Law -- Bloomington (now Maurer School of Law) in 1966. Rulings & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived
1942–2018
Appointed by
Ronald Reagan, 1988
Confirmed
by voice vote
Education
Indiana 1963 · Indiana Law -- Bloomington (now Maurer School of Law) 1966

Federal judicial service

YearCourtAppointed byVote
1988Northern District of IndianaReagan (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, Lozano was assigned 3,009 district-court cases (1978–2018). Median time from filing to termination: 242 days across 3,006 closed cases.

Prisoner & habeas23%
Civil rights23%
Personal-injury torts12%
Contract12%
Labor & ERISA7%
Other federal statutes7%
Other15%

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 100 of Lozano’s decisions reviewed on the merits by the U.S. courts of appeals in our data, 80 were affirmed, 13 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, Lozano authored 110 published opinions for the court (1988–2011). Most cited: Ninth Ave. Remedial Group v. Allis-Chalmers Corp. (21 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A selective record from published opinions in the CourtListener corpus, not every ruling; most unpublished district orders are not included.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 110 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 Rodolfo Lozano?
President Ronald Reagan appointed Rodolfo Lozano to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana in 1988.
Was Rodolfo Lozano appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?
Rodolfo Lozano was appointed by President Ronald Reagan, a Republican. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.
What was Rodolfo Lozano's confirmation vote?
Rodolfo Lozano was confirmed by voice vote on February 25, 1988. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.
Which court was Rodolfo Lozano on?
Rodolfo Lozano was a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana.

Sources

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