This article concerns a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. For Judge Charles Clark who served on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from 1939 to 1963, see Charles Edward Clark.

Charles Clark (born 1925) is a retired federal judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He is from Mississippi.

Clark was born in Memphis, Tennessee to Charles and Anita Clark. He entered the U.S. Naval Reserve as an ensign in 1943 and left the Reserve after the end of World War II three years later. He started the practice of law in 1946 in Jackson, Mississippi. He continued in private practice for five years, picking up an LL.B. from the University of Mississippi in 1948, then rejoined the Naval Reserve as a Lieutenant as the Korean War heated up in 1951. He left the Naval Reserve the following year, and resumed his law practice in 1953.

On October 7, 1969, President Richard M. Nixon nominated Clark to a seat on the Fifth Circuit. He was confirmed by the United States Senate only eight days later on October 15, 1969 and received his commission two days later.

Clark was Chief Judge of the Fifth Circuit from 1981 until his retirement from the court on January 15, 1992. He now resides in Jackson, Mississippi with his wife Emily.

[edit] Notable clerks

• Leslie H. Southwick, 1976-1977
• Rodney A. Smolla, 1978–1979

[edit] External links

• Charles Clark (judge) at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center.

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