William H. Steele (judge)

William Howard Steele (born 1951) is an American attorney and judge. He serves as a judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama.

Background

Steele was born in 1951 in Tuscumbia, Alabama. After graduating summa cum laude from the University of Southern Mississippi in 1972, Steele served in the U.S. Marine Corps as an officer, pilot, and instructor pilot. During his service in the Marine Corps, Steele participated in the operation to evacuate American citizens from Lebanon in 1976. He later served in the Alabama National Guard as a pilot and as commanding officer of an assault helicopter company.

After his service in the Marine Corps, Steele attended the University of Alabama School of Law. After law school, he was employed for six years as assistant and chief assistant district attorney in Mobile, Alabama. In that capacity, he litigated over 100 jury trials, and co-founded the Child Advocacy Center, an agency devoted to identifying and providing assistance to child victims of physical and sexual violence. In 1987, he was hired as an Assistant United States Attorney by U.S. Attorney and future U.S. Senator, Jeff Sessions.^[1] He held that position for two years before engaging in the private practice of law.

In 1990, he was appointed as a United States magistrate judge for the Southern District of Alabama, and served in that capacity for 13 years. In 2003, after being nominated by President Bush, and confirmed by the Senate, Steele was appointed to the position of U.S. district judge.

External sources

William H. Steele at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center.

References

↑ http://sessions.senate.gov/pressapp/record.cfm?id=191503

Legal offices
Preceded by Richard W. Vollmer, Jr.	Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama 2003–present	Incumbent

Current active district judges of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals

M. Alabama	Watkins 2 seats vacant

N. Alabama	Bowdre Coogler Proctor Hopkins Kallon Haikala 2 seats vacant

S. Alabama	Steele DuBose 1 seat vacant

M. Florida	Merryday Kovachevich Whittemore Corrigan Covington Howard Scriven Honeywell Dalton Chappell Davis Byron Mendoza 2 seats vacant

N. Florida	Rodgers Walker 2 seats vacant

S. Florida	Moore Zloch Moreno Ungaro Lenard Middlebrooks Dimitrouleas Marra Martinez Altonaga Cooke Williams Scola Gayles Bloom Rosenberg 2 seats vacant

M. Georgia	Land Treadwell Abrams 1 seat vacant

N. Georgia	Thrash Murphy Story Duffey Batten Totenberg Jones May Cohen Ross 1 seat vacant

S. Georgia	Wood Moore Hall

Chief Judges of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama

Daniel Holcombe Thomas Thomas Virgil Pittman William Brevard Hand Alex T. Howard, Jr. Charles Randolph Butler Jr. Callie V. Granade William H. Steele

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