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Justin Lowe Quackenbush (born October 3, 1929) is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington.


Education and career

Quackenbush was born in
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,
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on October 3, 1929. His father, Carl Quackenbush, was a law student who eventually became a Superior Court judge in Spokane. Quackenbush received a
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degree from the
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in 1951. He received a
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from Gonzaga University School of Law, his father's alma mater, in 1957. He was an officer in the
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from 1951 to 1954. He was a deputy prosecuting attorney in
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, Washington from 1957 to 1959. He was in private practice in Spokane from 1959 until his judicial nomination. He was active in Democratic Party politics, regularly serving as the campaign manager for
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's successful Congressional election campaigns starting in 1964 for over a decade. Quackenbush also taught at Gonzaga University School of Law from 1961 to 1967, and was an active Mason.


Federal judicial service

On May 9, 1980, President
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nominated Quackenbush to the seat on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington vacated by Judge Marshall Allen Neill. He was confirmed by the
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on June 18, 1980, and received his commission the same day. Because Neill was the only judge in the district, and had died in October 1979, Quackenbush and fellow appointee Judge Robert James McNichols immediately faced a tremendous backlog of cases. Quackenbush served as chief judge from 1989 to June 27, 1995, when he assumed
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.


See also

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Quackenbush, Justin Lowe 1929 births Living people Lawyers from Spokane, Washington University of Idaho alumni Gonzaga University School of Law alumni Gonzaga University faculty Judges of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington United States district court judges appointed by Jimmy Carter 20th-century American judges United States Navy officers 21st-century American judges