Orie Leon Phillips

Personal

Birthday: 
11/20/1885
Birthplace: 
Mercer County, IL
Date of Death: 
11/14/1974
Race or Ethnicity: 
White
Gender: 
Male
Prior Employment: 

Private practice, Raton, New Mexico, 1910-1923
Assistant district attorney, Eighth Judicial District, New Mexico, 1912-1916
General attorney, St. Louis, Rocky Mountain, and Pacific Company, 1917-1923
State senator, New Mexico, 1920-1923

Nominated to U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, March 1, 1929; no Senate vote

Education

Name of School: 

University of Michigan Law School

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Degree: 
J.D.
Degree Year: 
1908

Judicial Career

Court Name: 
U. S. District Court, District of New Mexico
Court Name: 

New Mexico District Court

President Nominating: 
Warren G. Harding
Party Affiliation of President: 
Republican
Commission Date: 
3/3/1923
Termination Date: 
4/29/1929
Termination Reason: 
Appointment to Another Judicial Position
Court Name - Second: 
U. S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Court Name - Second: 

Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals

Commission Date - Second: 
4/29/1929
Retirement from Active Service - Second: 
1/1/1956
Termination Date - Second: 
11/14/1974
Termination Reason - Second: 
Death