Name Frank McFadden | ||
Education Yale Law School, University of Mississippi | ||
Frank Hampton McFadden (born November 20, 1925) is a former United States federal judge.
Born in Oxford, Mississippi, was in the United States Navy from 1944 to 1949 and from 1951 to 1953. He received a B.A. from the University of Mississippi in 1950 and an LL.B. from Yale Law School in 1955. He was in private practice in New York City from 1955 to 1958, and then in Birmingham, Alabama until 1969.
On July 22, 1969, McFadden was nominated by President Richard Nixon to a seat on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama vacated by Harlan H. Grooms. McFadden was confirmed by the United States Senate on August 8, 1969, and received his commission on August 9, 1969. He served as chief judge from 1973 until his resignation on January 1, 1982. He thereafter became an executive with Blount, Inc., in Montgomery, Alabama.