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Dennis Shedd
Shedd in 2022
Senior Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
In office
January 30, 2018 – May 2, 2022
Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
In office
November 26, 2002 – January 30, 2018
Appointed byGeorge W. Bush
Preceded byClyde H. Hamilton
Succeeded byJulius N. Richardson
Judge of the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina
In office
October 30, 1990 – December 10, 2002
Appointed byGeorge H. W. Bush
Preceded byKaren L. Henderson
Succeeded byHenry Franklin Floyd
Personal details
Born
Dennis Wayne Shedd

(1953-01-28) January 28, 1953 (age 71)
Cordova, South Carolina
EducationWofford College (BA)
University of South Carolina (JD)
Georgetown University (LLM)

Dennis Wayne Shedd (born January 28, 1953) is a former United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

Background

Shedd attended Orangeburg Preparatory Schools in Orangeburg, South Carolina. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Wofford College, his Juris Doctor from the University of South Carolina School of Law and a Master of Laws from the Georgetown University Law Center. He went on to become chief counsel and staff director for the Senate Committee on the Judiciary while in the employ of Senator Strom Thurmond. He moved to South Carolina to practice law in 1988. During that time, he served as an adjunct professor of law at the University of South Carolina School of Law.

Federal judicial service

Service on district court

President George H. W. Bush nominated Shedd on October 17, 1990 to the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina. Shedd was confirmed and then received commission on October 30, 1990. He served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina until his appointment to the Fourth Circuit.

Service on court of appeals

Shedd was nominated by President George W. Bush on September 4, 2001 and confirmed 55-44 by the United States Senate on November 19, 2002.[1] He received his judicial commission on November 26, 2002. Shedd assumed senior status on January 30, 2018. He retired from the court on May 2, 2022.[2]

Notable decisions

In 2007, Judge Shedd wrote for a fractured panel which found that the procedural default doctrine prevented the court from hearing the constitutional claims of a death row inmate.[3] On May 25, 2017, Judge Shedd wrote a dissent when the en banc circuit upheld a lower court's injunction against the President's travel ban by a vote of 10–3 in Int'l Refugee Assistance Project v. Trump.[4]

References

  1. ^ Presidential Nomination 888, 107th Cong. (2002).
  2. ^ Dennis Shedd at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
  3. ^ Recent Case: Fourth Circuit Fails to Reach a Judgment on the Merits of a Constitutional Claim Based on the State Procedural Default Doctrine, 120 Harv. L. Rev. 2246 (2007).
  4. ^ Adam Liptak (26 May 2017). "Appeals Court Will Not Reinstate Trump's Revised Travel Ban". The New York Times. p. A1. Retrieved 28 May 2017.

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Preceded by Judge of the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina
1990–2002 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
2002–2018 		Succeeded by
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