FedArb Council
The Honorable William H. Webster, Chairman
U. S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri
(1970-1973)
U. S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
(1973-1978)

The Honorable John S. Martin
U. S. District Court, Southern District of New York (1990-2003)

The Honorable George C. Pratt
U. S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
(1976-1982)
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
(1982-1995)

The Honorable Charles B. Renfrew
U. S. District Court, Northern District of California (1971-1980)

The Honorable Ralph G. Thompson
U.S. District Court, Western District of Oklahoma
(1975-2007)

Judge Frank H. McFadden (Fmr)

Honorable Frank Hampton McFadden was a U. S. District Judge for the Northern District of Alabama from 1969 to 1982, serving as Chief Judge for that court from 1973 to 1982. Mr. McFadden specializes in alternative dispute resolution, including arbitration and mediation of construction cases, commercial and business litigation and government contracts. After resigning from the federal bench, he was the Chief Legal Officer at Blount, Inc. (1982 to 1995), and then returned to the private legal practice. He was a lawyer and partner at Bradley, Arant, Rose & White in Birmingham, Alabama from 1958 to 1969, and a lawyer at Lord, Day & Lord in New York City from 1955-58. He is now affiliated with Capell & Howard, P.C. in Montgomery, Alabama, and is listed in The Best Lawyers in America.

Mr. McFadden served in the U.S. Navy and USNR, Ensign to Lieutenant, from 1944 to 1949 and 1951 to 1953, which included service on battleships and heavy cruisers in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and in Korea. He was an Assistant Professor of Naval Science, NROTC, University of Mississippi.

Mr. McFadden was a member of The Brookings Institution task force which published "Justice for All: Reducing Costs and Delay in Civil Litigation" (1989) and was also an author of "CPR Legal Program Preventing and Resolving Construction Disputes," Center for Public Resources (1991). He has served on numerous bar association and ADR committees and judicial advisory groups, and was Chairman of the American Corporate Counsel Association in 1989.

Mr. McFadden is a graduate of the University of Mississippi (B.A. 1950) and Yale Law School (L.L.B. 1955). He is admitted to the bar in New York and Alabama.

Selected Opinion:

Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital v. Mercury Construction Corporation, 460 U.S. 1 (1983).

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