David C. Godbey
{{Short description|American judge (born 1957)}}
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| office = Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas
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| birth_place = Temple, Texas, U.S.
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David Charles Godbey{{cite web|url=https://obits.dallasnews.com/us/obituaries/dallasmorningnews/name/charles-godbey-obituary?id=21234299|title=Rev. Charles Perry Godbey|work=Dallas Morning News|date=June 21, 2012}} (born September 17, 1957){{cite web|url=https://www.congress.gov/107/chrg/CHRG-107shrg85707/CHRG-107shrg85707.pdf|title=Hearings before the Committee on the Judiciary|work=United States Senate|date=April 25, 2002}} is the chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas.
Education and career
Godbey was born in Temple, Texas. He received a Bachelor of Science degree and Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering degree from Southern Methodist University in 1978 and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 1982. He was a law clerk to Judge Irving Loeb Goldberg of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit from 1982 to 1983. He was in private practice in Dallas from 1983 to 1994. He was a judge on the 160th District Court, State of Texas from 1994 to 2002.{{FJC Bio|nid=1391561}}
= Federal judicial service =
Godbey was nominated by President George W. Bush on January 23, 2002, to a seat vacated by Robert B. Maloney. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on August 1, 2002, and received his commission on August 2, 2002. He sits in Dallas. He became chief judge on September 6, 2022.{{cite web|url=https://www.txnd.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/documents/GodbeyPressRelease.pdf|title=District Judge David C. Godbey will become Chief Judge of the Northern District of Texas beginning September 6, 2022.|publisher=United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas|accessdate=September 15, 2022}}
References
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Sources
- {{FJC Bio|nid=1391561}}
- [http://www.law.com/jsp/tx/PubArticleTX.jsp?id=1202432509529&slreturn=1&hbxlogin=1 John Council, "A Black Belt in a Black Robe", Texas Lawyer, July 27, 2009] (registration required)
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Category:Harvard Law School alumni
Category:Judges of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas
Category:People from Temple, Texas
Category:Southern Methodist University alumni
Category:Texas state court judges
Category:United States district court judges appointed by George W. Bush