Who appointed Simeon Timothy Lake III?

President Ronald Reagan appointed Simeon Timothy Lake III to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas in 1988.

Was Simeon Timothy Lake III appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?

Simeon Timothy Lake III was appointed by President Ronald Reagan, a Republican. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.

What was Simeon Timothy Lake III's confirmation vote?

Simeon Timothy Lake III was confirmed by voice vote on August 11, 1988. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.

Southern District of Texas / Appointed 1988 / Senior status since 2019

Simeon Timothy Lake III

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

Appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1988 and confirmed by voice vote, Simeon Timothy Lake III is a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. He earned a law degree from University of Texas School of Law in 1969. Rulings & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1944 · age 82
Appointed by: Ronald Reagan, 1988
Confirmed: by voice vote
Education: Texas A&M 1966 · University of Texas Law 1969
Succeeded: Ross N. Sterling
Succeeded by: Drew Barnett Tipton

Federal judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1988	Southern District of Texas succeeded Ross N. Sterling	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

Texas A&M University	B.A.	1966
University of Texas School of Law	J.D.	1969

Judicial Record

Caseload & case types

In our data, Lake was assigned 10,712 district-court cases (1976–2026). Median time from filing to termination: 219 days across 10,126 closed cases.

Prisoner & habeas20%

Contract16%

Other civil matters14%

Personal-injury torts10%

Civil rights10%

Labor & ERISA7%

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 438 of Lake’s decisions reviewed on the merits by the U.S. courts of appeals in our data, 364 were affirmed, 38 reversed or vacated, and 36 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, Lake authored 123 published opinions for the court (1989–2011). Most cited: In Re the Arbitration Between Trans Chemical Ltd. & China National MacHiney Import & Export Corp. (79 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
1997	In Re the Arbitration Between Trans Chemical Ltd. & China National MacHiney Import & Export Corp.	978 F. Supp. 266	79
1990	Federal Deposit Ins. Corp. v. Howse	736 F. Supp. 1437	71
1991	In Re Gulf Pension Litigation	764 F. Supp. 1149	37
1994	Resolution Trust Corp. v. Holmes	846 F. Supp. 1310	36
2004	In Re Dynegy, Inc. ERISA Litigation	309 F. Supp. 2d 861	32
1996	Harris County Wrecker Owners for Equal Opportunity v. City of Houston	943 F. Supp. 711	25
2010	Finserv Casualty Corp. v. Settlement Funding, LLC	724 F. Supp. 2d 662	18
2000	Pineda v. City of Houston	124 F. Supp. 2d 1057	18
1998	David L. Aldridge Co. v. Microsoft Corp.	995 F. Supp. 728	18
2002	In Re Azurix Corp. Securities Litigation	198 F. Supp. 2d 862	17
2007	Bisong v. University of Houston	493 F. Supp. 2d 896	16
2011	Baisden v. I'M READY PRODUCTIONS, INC.	793 F. Supp. 2d 970	15
2010	McIntosh Ex Rel. Estate of McIntosh v. Smith	690 F. Supp. 2d 515	15
1993	Apex Municipal Fund v. N-Group Securities	841 F. Supp. 1423	15
1998	Monterey Mushrooms, Inc. v. Hall	14 F. Supp. 2d 988	14

Showing the 15 most-cited of 123 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 Simeon Timothy Lake III?: President Ronald Reagan appointed Simeon Timothy Lake III to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas in 1988.
Was Simeon Timothy Lake III appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?: Simeon Timothy Lake III was appointed by President Ronald Reagan, a Republican. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.
What was Simeon Timothy Lake III's confirmation vote?: Simeon Timothy Lake III was confirmed by voice vote on August 11, 1988. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.
Which court is Simeon Timothy Lake III on?: Simeon Timothy Lake III is a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas.

Sources

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