David Dortch Warriner (February 25, 1929 – March 17, 1986) was a
United States district judge
The United States district courts are the trial courts of the U.S. federal judiciary. There is one district court for each federal judicial district. Each district covers one U.S. state or a portion of a state. There is at least one feder ...
of the
.
Education and career
Born in
Brunswick County,
Virginia
Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States between the East Coast of the United States ...
, Warriner received a
Bachelor of Arts
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degree from the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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in 1951 and a
Bachelor of Laws
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from the
University of Virginia School of Law
The University of Virginia School of Law (Virginia Law) is the law school of the University of Virginia, a public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Founded by Thomas Jefferson in 1819 as part of his "academical village", and now ...
in 1957. He was in the
United States Navy
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as a Lieutenant (JG) from 1951 to 1954. He was in private practice in
Emporia, Virginia from 1957 to 1974. He was city attorney of Emporia from 1969 to 1974.
Federal judicial service
Warriner was nominated by President
Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913April 22, 1994) was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 until Resignation of Richard Nixon, his resignation in 1974. A member of the Republican Party (United States), Republican ...
on May 6, 1974, to a seat on the
vacated by Judge
Oren Ritter Lewis
Oren Ritter Lewis (October 7, 1902 – June 12, 1983) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
Education and career
Born in Seymour, Indiana, Lewis received a Bachelor of Laws ...
. He was confirmed by the
United States Senate
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on May 16, 1974, and received his commission on May 21, 1974. Warriner served in that capacity until his death of an apparent
heart attack
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on March 17, 1986, in Brunswick County.
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1929 births
1986 deaths
Judges of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
United States district court judges appointed by Richard Nixon
United States Navy officers
20th-century American lawyers
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni
University of Virginia School of Law alumni