Dorwin Wallace Suttle Explained

Dorwin Wallace Suttle
Office:Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas
Term Start:October 10, 1979
Term End:September 29, 2001
Office1:Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas
Term Start1:July 2, 1964
Term End1:October 10, 1979
Appointer1:Lyndon B. Johnson
Predecessor1:Ben Herbert Rice Jr.
Successor1:Clyde Frederick Shannon Jr.
Birth Name:Dorwin Wallace Suttle
Birth Date:16 July 1906
Birth Place:Knox County, Indiana
Death Place:San Antonio, Texas
Education:University of Texas School of Law (LL.B.)

Dorwin Wallace Suttle (July 16, 1906 – September 29, 2001) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas.

Education and career

Born in Knox County, Indiana, Suttle received a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Texas School of Law in 1928. He was in private practice in Uvalde, Texas from 1928 to 1964. He was city attorney of Uvalde in 1929. He was county attorney of Uvalde County from 1929 to 1936. He was clerk to Vice President John Nance Garner from 1937 to 1941. He was city attorney of Uvalde from 1937 to 1941. He served in the United States Navy during World War II.

Federal judicial service

Suttle was nominated by President Lyndon B. Johnson on April 11, 1964, to a seat on the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas vacated by Judge Ben Herbert Rice Jr. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on June 30, 1964, and received his commission on July 2, 1964. He assumed senior status on October 10, 1979. Suttle served in that capacity until his death on September 29, 2001, in San Antonio, Texas.