Who appointed William H. Walls?

President William J. Clinton appointed William H. Walls to the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey in 1994.

Was William H. Walls appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?

William H. Walls was appointed by President William J. Clinton, a Democrat. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.

What was William H. Walls's confirmation vote?

William H. Walls was confirmed by voice vote on October 7, 1994. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.

District of New Jersey / Appointed 1994 / Served to 2019

William H. Walls

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

Appointed by President William J. Clinton in 1994 and confirmed by voice vote, William H. Walls was a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. He earned a law degree from Yale Law School in 1957. Rulings & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1932–2019
Appointed by: William J. Clinton, 1994
Confirmed: by voice vote
Education: Dartmouth College 1954 · Yale Law School 1957
Succeeded: Harold Arnold Ackerman
Succeeded by: Renée Marie Bumb

Federal judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1994	District of New Jersey succeeded Harold Arnold Ackerman	Clinton (D)	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

Dartmouth College	A.B.	1954
Yale Law School	LL.B.	1957

Judicial Record

Caseload & case types

In our data, Walls was assigned 4,771 district-court cases (1973–2019). Median time from filing to termination: 252 days across 4,762 closed cases.

Contract24%

Personal-injury torts14%

Civil rights11%

Other federal statutes10%

Prisoner & habeas10%

Labor & ERISA8%

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 84 of Walls’s decisions reviewed on the merits by the U.S. courts of appeals in our data, 75 were affirmed, 5 reversed or vacated, and 4 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, Walls authored 162 published opinions for the court (1995–2011). Most cited: P. Schoenfeld Asset Management LLC v. Cendant Corp. (149 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
2001	P. Schoenfeld Asset Management LLC v. Cendant Corp.	161 F. Supp. 2d 349	149
1996	NL Industries, Inc. v. Commercial Union Insurance	935 F. Supp. 513	133
1998	Gunter v. Ridgewood Energy Corp.	32 F. Supp. 2d 162	80
2009	Ivan v. County of Middlesex	595 F. Supp. 2d 425	61
2002	Verissimo v. Immigration & Naturalization Services	204 F. Supp. 2d 818	54
1996	De La Cruz v. Cohen (In Re Cohen)	191 B.R. 599	44
2002	Del Sontro v. Cendant Corp., Inc.	223 F. Supp. 2d 563	41
2009	Securities & Exchange Commission v. Lucent Technologies, Inc.	610 F. Supp. 2d 342	36
1999	In Re Cendant Corp. Litigation	60 F. Supp. 2d 354	36
1996	Burke v. Donington, Karcher, Salmond, Ronan & Rainone, P.A. (In Re Donington, Karcher, Salmond, Ronan & Rainone, P.A.)	194 B.R. 750	35
1997	Harlem Wizards Entertainment Basketball, Inc. v. NBA Properties, Inc.	952 F. Supp. 1084	34
2010	Cargill Global Trading v. APPLIED DEVELOPMENT COMPANY	706 F. Supp. 2d 563	32
2011	Catanese v. Unilever	774 F. Supp. 2d 684	31
2002	Smith v. Suprema Specialties, Inc.	206 F. Supp. 2d 627	28
2001	P. Schoenfeld Asset Management LLC v. Cendant Corp.	142 F. Supp. 2d 589	27

Showing the 15 most-cited of 162 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 William H. Walls?: President William J. Clinton appointed William H. Walls to the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey in 1994.
Was William H. Walls appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?: William H. Walls was appointed by President William J. Clinton, a Democrat. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.
What was William H. Walls's confirmation vote?: William H. Walls was confirmed by voice vote on October 7, 1994. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.
Which court was William H. Walls on?: William H. Walls was a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.

Sources

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24 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).