Dennis Shedd
{{Short description|American judge (born 1953)}}
{{Infobox officeholder
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| image = Dennis Shedd (cropped).jpg
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| caption = Shedd in 2022
| office = Senior Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
| term_start = January 30, 2018
| term_end = May 2, 2022
| office1 = Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
| term_start1 = November 26, 2002
| term_end1 = January 30, 2018
| appointer1 = George W. Bush
| predecessor1 = Clyde H. Hamilton
| successor1 = Julius N. Richardson
| office2 = Judge of the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina
| term_start2 = October 30, 1990
| term_end2 = December 10, 2002
| nominator2 =
| appointer2 = George H. W. Bush
| predecessor2 = Karen L. Henderson
| successor2 = Henry F. Floyd
| pronunciation =
| birth_name = Dennis Wayne Shedd
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1953|01|28}}
| birth_place = Cordova, South Carolina
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| education = Wofford College (BA)
University of South Carolina (JD)
Georgetown University (LLM)
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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 on October 27, 1990. He received his commission on October 30, 1990.{{FJC Bio|nid=1387711}} His service as a district court judge was terminated on December 10, 2002, when he was elevated to the court of appeals.
=Service on court of appeals=
Shedd was nominated by President George W. Bush on September 4, 2001, and was confirmed by the United States Senate on November 19, 2002, by a 55–44 vote.[https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1072/vote_107_2_00250.htm On the Nomination (Confirmation Dennis W. Shedd, of South Carolina, to be U.S. Circuit Judge)], United States Senate 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.
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.[https://harvardlawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/mcneill_v_polk.pdf 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). 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.{{cite news|last1=Adam Liptak|title=Appeals Court Will Not Reinstate Trump's Revised Travel Ban|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/25/us/politics/trump-travel-ban-blocked.html|access-date=28 May 2017|work=The New York Times|date=26 May 2017|page=A1|author1-link=Adam Liptak}}
References
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Sources
- {{FJC Bio|nid=1387711}}
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Category:Georgetown University Law Center alumni
Category:Judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Category:Judges of the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina
Category:People from Orangeburg County, South Carolina
Category:United States court of appeals judges appointed by George W. Bush
Category:United States district court judges appointed by George H. W. Bush
Category:University of South Carolina alumni