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Judge Lovell assumes inactive senior status
Senior United States District Court
Judge Charles C. Lovell assumed inactive
senior status in April aer 36 years of ser-
vice on the federal bench in the District
of Montana.
Judge Lovell has relinquished his
pending caseload and will no longer
maintain a chambers in the Helena
Division of the District of Montana.
Judge Lovell was nominated by
President Ronald Reagan on March
27, 1985, to a new seat authorized for
Montana. He was conrmed by the U.S.
Senate on April 3, 1985, and received
his commission on April 4, 1985. He as-
sumed senior status on June 14, 2000. He
maintained a regular case load following
his transition to senior status, resulting in
36 years of service as a federal judge.
e court produced a biographical
lm depicting Judge Lovell’s career in
2017. In it, the judge said his role model
as a judge was the Honorable William
James Jameson, former chief judge of
the District of Montana, and he tried to
emulate as best as he could like his idea
of what Judge Jameson was like on the
bench.
“He was probably the nest judge I
have ever known,” Judge Lovell said in
the lm. “He was an absolutely wonderful
human being, a great student of the law,
a hard worker, even tempered. Every trait
about him was commendable.”
Judge Lovell added that he never
cared for it when judges would frequently
bang the gavel to maintain order. He said
that when he became judge: “I made up
my mind I was not going to touch that
gavel for at least six months. It’s been
30 years now and I still haven’t touched
that gavel. If you can’t maintain control,
of course, you need to do whatever it
takes to do so, but Judge Jameson could
always put me in my seat by just raising
an eyebrow.”
e lm can be viewed at www.mtd.
uscourts.gov/district-montana-history.
Following his graduation from the
University of Montana in 1952, Judge
Lovell entered active duty for the U.S.
Air Force as a weapons controller. He
transferred to active reserve in 1954 and
reached the rank of captain before he was
released to honorary retired reserve in
1967.
Following his graduation from the
University of Montana School of Law in
1959, Judge Lovell was in private practice
from 1959-1985. During that time, he
served as the Chief Counsel for the Oce
of the Montana Attorney General in
Helena from 1969-1972.
Judge Lovell presided over numerous
notable cases he during his time on the
COURT NEWS
U.S. District Court Judge Charles C. Lovell is shown in an image from a
2017 biographical lm about the judge produced by the District of Mon-
tana.
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