Stephen Roth (Michigan)

Stephen Roth

Nonpartisan

Prior offices:

United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Years in office: 1962 - 1974

Education

Bachelor's

University of Notre Dame, 1931

Law

University of Michigan Law School, 1935

This page is about a former federal judge for the Eastern District of Michigan. If you are looking for information on the judge for the Utah Court of Appeals, please see Stephen L. Roth.

Stephen John Roth (1908-1974) was a federal judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.

Roth was nominated by President John F. Kennedy on April 19, 1962, to a seat vacated by John Feikens; he was confirmed by the Senate on May 1, 1962, and received his commission on May 7th. He served until his death on July 11, 1974.^[1] Roth was succeeded in this position by James Churchill.

Early life and education

• University of Notre Dame, Ph.B., 1931
• University of Michigan Law School, LL.B, 1935^[1]

Professional career

• Private practice, Flint, Michigan, 1935-37, 1939-41, 1943, 1945-48, 1950-52
• Assistant prosecuting attorney, Gennesee County Michigan, 1937-38
• Prosecuting attorney, Gennesee County, Michigan, 1941-42
• U.S. Army Second Lieutenant, 1942-45
• Attorney general of Michigan, 1949-50
• Judge, Circuit Court of Michigan, 1952-62^[1]

Judicial career

Eastern District of Michigan

Roth was nominated by President John F. Kennedy on April 19, 1962, to a seat vacated by John Feikens; he was confirmed by the Senate on May 1, 1962, and received his commission on May 7th. He served until his death on July 11, 1974.^[1] Roth was succeeded in this position by James Churchill.

External links

• Stephen Roth's Biography from the Federal Judicial Center

Footnotes

v • e Federal judges who have served the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
Active judges	•  Thomas Ludington  •  Mark Goldsmith  •  Stephen Murphy (Michigan)  •  Shalina Kumar  •  Linda V. Parker  •  Laurie Michelson  •  Terrence Berg  •  Judith Ellen Levy  •  Matthew Frederick Leitman  •  Jonathan Grey  •  Frances Kay Behm  •  Susan DeClercq  •  Brandy McMillion  •  Robert White (Michigan)
Senior judges	Bernard Friedman  •  Paul Borman  •  Robert Cleland  •  Nancy Edmunds  •  Denise Hood  •  David M. Lawson  •  John O'Meara (Michigan)  •  George Steeh  •  Gershwin Drain  •
Magistrate judges	David Grand  •  Patricia T. Morris  •  Anthony Patti  •  Elizabeth Stafford  •  Kimberly Altman  •  Curtis Ivy Jr.  •
Former Article III judges	Damon Keith  •  Victoria Roberts  •  Marianne Battani  •  Anna Taylor  •  Avern Cohn  •  Sean Cox (Michigan)  •  Patrick Duggan  •  John Feikens  •  Paul Gadola  •  Arthur Tarnow  •  Lawrence Zatkoff  •  Cornelia Kennedy  •  Ralph Guy  •  Richard Suhrheinrich  •  Horace Gilmore  •  Stewart Newblatt  •  Ross Wilkins  •  Barbara Hackett  •  Russell Harvey (Michigan)  •  George La Plata  •  Henry Billings Brown (U.S. Supreme Court)  •  John Wesley Longyear  •  Henry Harrison Swan  •  Alexis Caswell Angell  •  Arthur Tuttle  •  Charles Casper Simons  •  Edward Julien Moinet  •  Ernest Aloysius O'Brien  •  Arthur Lederle  •  Frank Picard  •  Wade Hampton McCree, Jr.  •  James Churchill  •  Mona Majzoub  •  Patricia Boyle  •  Robert DeMascio  •  Ralph Freeman  •  Lawrence Gubow  •  Frederick Kaess  •  Arthur Koscinski  •  Theodore Levin (Michigan)  •  Thaddeus Machrowicz  •  Clifford O'Sullivan  •  Philip Pratt (Michigan)  •  Stephen Roth (Michigan)  •  Talbot Smith  •  Thomas Thornton  •  George Woods (federal judge)  •  Stephanie Dawkins Davis  •
Former Chief judges	Damon Keith  •  Bernard Friedman  •  Anna Taylor  •  Julian Cook  •  Sean Cox (Michigan)  •  John Feikens  •  Lawrence Zatkoff  •  Cornelia Kennedy  •  Arthur Lederle  •  Frank Picard  •  James Churchill  •  Ralph Freeman  •  Frederick Kaess  •  Theodore Levin (Michigan)  •  Philip Pratt (Michigan)  •

v • e Federal judges nominated by John F. Kennedy
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1962	Allgood • Barrow • Beamer • Bell • Body • Bonsal • Brewster • Brown • Butzner • Carr • Cohen • Coolahan • Cooper • Crary • Curtis • Daugherty • Oscar Davis • Elliott • Ellis • Eschbach • Feinberg • Foley • Fox • Gewin • Goldberg • Gray • Green • Hanson • Hays • Hughes • Jones • McLean • McManus • Meredith • Neese • Noel • Oliver • Preyer • Regan • Rosenberg • Rosling • Roth • Seth • Shaw • Smith • Spears • Templar • Tyler • Weigel • White • Winter • Wright • Wyatt
1963	Almond • Cannella • Craig • Decker • Edwards • Fulton • Marovitz • McGowan • Mehaffy • Moynahan • Nealon • Payne • Phillips • Tenney • Thompson • Thornberry