- Myron Donovan Crocker
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Myron Donovan Crocker (September 4, 1915 – February 2, 2010) was a United States federal judge.
Born in Pasadena, California, Crocker received an A.B. from Fresno State College in 1937 and an LL.B. from the University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law in 1940. He was a special agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1940 to 1946. He was in private practice in Chowchilla, California from 1946 to 1958. He was an Assistant district attorney of Madera County, California from 1946 to 1951. He was a judge on the Chowchilla Justice Court, California from 1952 to 1958. He was a judge on the Superior Court, Madera, California from 1958 to 1959.
Crocker was a federal judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of California. Crocker was nominated by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on February 16, 1959, to a seat vacated by Gilbert H. Jertberg. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on September 14, 1959, and received his commission on September 21, 1959. Crocker served in that capacity until September 18, 1966, due to assignment to another court.
Crocker was a federal judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California. He was reassigned on September 18, 1966; Served as chief judge, 1966-1967. He assumed senior status on January 1, 1981.
Sources
- Myron Donovan Crocker at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
Categories:- 1915 births
- 2010 deaths
- California state court judges
- Judges of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California
- Judges of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California
- United States district court judges appointed by Dwight D. Eisenhower
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