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Demographics
Type: District Judge
Status: Active
Born: New Orleans, LA (1931)
Race: African American
Nominated By: President Jimmy Carter ( Democratic)
Employment Background
Robert F. Collins resigned on August 6, 1993, one day before his impeachment trial was set to begin. In 1991, he accepted money to reduce the sentence of a marijuana smuggler. He served for five years in the Federal Prison Camp in Montgomery, Alabama, among other prisons. See http://www.nytimes.com/1991/09/07/us/us-judge-is-given-prison-sentence.html.
U.S. Army, 1954-1956
Private practice, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1956-1972
Instructor, Southern University Law School, 1959-1961
Magistrate judge, Orleans Parish [Louisiana] Criminal District Court, 1972-1978
Educational Background
- Dillard University, B.A. (1951)
- Louisiana State University Law School, LL.B. (1954)
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