Ronald Rene Lagueux
Appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1986 and confirmed by voice vote, Ronald Rene Lagueux was a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island. He earned a law degree from Harvard Law School in 1956. Rulings & record ↓ Sources ↓
- Lived
- 1931–2023
- Appointed by
- Ronald Reagan, 1986
- Confirmed
- by voice vote
- Education
- Bowdoin College 1953 · Harvard Law School 1956
- Succeeded by
- William E. Smith
Federal judicial service
| Year | Court | Appointed by | Vote |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | District of Rhode Island | 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
| Bowdoin College | A.B. | 1953 |
| Harvard Law School | LL.B. | 1956 |
Judicial Record
Caseload & case types
In our data, Lagueux was assigned 2,920 district-court cases (1985–2015). Median time from filing to termination: 320 days across 2,919 closed cases.
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 37 of Lagueux’s decisions reviewed on the merits by the U.S. courts of appeals in our data, 30 were affirmed, 6 reversed or vacated, and 1 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, Lagueux authored 359 published opinions for the court (1986–2011). Most cited: Brown v. Apfel (98 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A selective record from published opinions in the CourtListener corpus, not every ruling; most unpublished district orders are not included.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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Brown v. Apfel | 71 F. Supp. 2d 28 | 98 |
| 2004 | Lacedra v. Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility | 334 F. Supp. 2d 114 | 97 |
| 1991 | Gannon v. Narragansett Electric Co. | 777 F. Supp. 167 | 80 |
| 1996 | Iacampo v. Hasbro, Inc. | 929 F. Supp. 562 | 62 |
| 1994 | Blinzler v. Marriott International, Inc. | 857 F. Supp. 1 | 62 |
| 2000 | Guilbeault v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. | 84 F. Supp. 2d 263 | 57 |
| 1996 | URI Cogeneration Partners, L.P. v. Board of Governors for Higher Education | 915 F. Supp. 1267 | 46 |
| 1989 | Regan v. Cherry Corp. | 706 F. Supp. 145 | 44 |
| 1993 | Blasbalg v. Tarro (In Re Hyperion Enterprises, Inc.) | 158 B.R. 555 | 43 |
| 1989 | Jones v. State of RI | 724 F. Supp. 25 | 41 |
| 1991 | Anderson v. McGowan (In Re Anderson) | 128 B.R. 850 | 38 |
| 1991 | King Ex Rel. King v. Sullivan | 776 F. Supp. 645 | 36 |
| 1998 | Zahn v. Yucaipa Capital Fund | 218 B.R. 656 | 34 |
| 1999 | Liu v. Striuli | 36 F. Supp. 2d 452 | 32 |
| 2001 | Estates of Ungar Ex Rel. Strachman v. Palestinian Authority | 153 F. Supp. 2d 76 | 30 |
Showing the 15 most-cited of 359 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 Ronald Rene Lagueux?
- President Ronald Reagan appointed Ronald Rene Lagueux to the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island in 1986.
- Was Ronald Rene Lagueux appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?
- Ronald Rene Lagueux was appointed by President Ronald Reagan, a Republican. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.
- What was Ronald Rene Lagueux's confirmation vote?
- Ronald Rene Lagueux was confirmed by voice vote on March 3, 1986. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.
- Which court was Ronald Rene Lagueux on?
- Ronald Rene Lagueux was a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island.
Sources
Each fact on this page traces to a primary public record.
- FJC Biographical Directory
- Wikidata
- Portrait: United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island (Public domain), via Wikimedia Commons
- CourtListener bulk data (Free Law Project): authored opinions & citation counts
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37 years on the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island. Data as of 2026-08-10. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).