Judge Charles Wilson of the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit announced plans to take a form of semi-retirement.
Wilson, who has served on the Atlanta-based court since 1999, sent a letter to the White House on Jan. 19 announcing he would take senior status no earlier than Dec. 31, 2024, his chambers said.
A fourth-generation Floridian, Wilson, 69, was born in Pensacola, where his father worked as an attorney. His father first took him to visit a courthouse when he was seven years old, according to a 2019 Federal Lawyer profile.
Wilson went on to graduate from Notre Dame’s law school and worked as an assistant county attorney in Hillsborough County, Florida, and as a county judge.
He later served as a US magistrate judge before becoming US attorney for the Middle District of Florida in 1994.
In 1999, President Bill Clinton picked Wilson to succeed Judge Joseph Hatchett, the first Black judge on the Fifth Circuit, who had hired Wilson as a law clerk. Hatchett had been reassigned to the newly created Eleventh Circuit.
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