Judges and Judiciary
Jan. 10, 2002
The Teleology Of the Bench
SAN FRANCISCO - Judge Joseph Tyree Sneed doesn't have much interest in tort law, but let a slip of tax code catch his eye and you've got his attention. "[Tax law] has a symmetry and a logic about it that always appealed to me," said Sneed, 81, a senior judge of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Joseph Tyree Sneed
9th U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
San Francisco
Career Highlights: Appointed by President Nixon in 1973; Deputy U.S. Attorney General, 1973; Dean and Professor of Law, Duke University, 1971-1973; Professor of Law, Stanford University, 1962-1971; Professor of Law, Cornell University, 1957-1962.
Law school: University of Texas, 1947
Age: 81
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