Orinda Dale Evans (born April 23, 1943) is an inactive
Senior United States district judge
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of the
.
Early life and education
Born in
Savannah,
Georgia
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, Evans received an
Artium Baccalaureus degree from
Duke University in 1965 and a
Juris Doctor from
Emory University School of Law
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in 1968.
Career
She was in private practice in
Atlanta
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, Georgia from 1968 to 1979. She served as counsel to the Atlanta Crime Commission from 1970 to 1971, and was an adjunct professor of law at Emory from 1974 to 1977.
Federal judicial service
On June 5, 1979, Evans was nominated by President
Jimmy Carter
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to a seat on the
vacated by Judge
Albert John Henderson
Albert John Henderson (December 12, 1920 – May 11, 1999) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and earlier was a United State ...
. She was confirmed by the
United States Senate
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on July 23, 1979, and received her commission on July 24, 1979. She served as Chief Judge from 1999 to 2006, when Judge
Jack Tarpley Camp Jr. became Chief Judge. Evans assumed
senior status
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on December 31, 2008.
She assumed inactive senior status on September 30, 2020.
Notable cases
On February 14, 2008, Evans sentenced tax protester Sherry Jackson to four consecutive prison terms of 12 months each.
On May 11, 2012, Evans decided the ''
Cambridge University Press v. Becker'' case, ultimately determining that
Georgia State University
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was the prevailing party and awarding attorneys' fees to GSU from the plaintiffs (
Oxford University Press
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,
Cambridge University Press
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, and
SAGE Publications).
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1943 births
Living people
People from Savannah, Georgia
Duke University alumni
Emory University School of Law alumni
Judges of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
United States district court judges appointed by Jimmy Carter
20th-century American judges
Emory University faculty
21st-century American judges
20th-century American women judges
21st-century American women judges