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 John V. Singleton (Ret)

John V. Singleton was a District Judge in the Southern District of Texas from 1966 to 1995 and also served as Chief Judge from 1979 to 1989 and on panels of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Prior to his judicial service, he was in private practice in Houston from 1946 until 1966 representing corporate clients. He presided over hundreds of cases during his judicial career, including criminal and civil price fixing cases against 14 corrugated box companies and 27 of their corporate officers and an ensuing consolidated multidistrict class action which was then the largest such case ever tried to a jury. He also decided the landmark trade dress case, Two Pesos, Inc. v. Taco Cabana, Inc. He has been a member of the Judicial Conference of the United States and of many Bar committees.

Mr. Singleton is a graduate of the University of Texas, which he entered in 1936 as a candidate for a combined B.A. and L.L.B. degree. He entered the U.S. Navy on January 10, 1942, after taking the bar exam but before completing law school. He saw active service in the Navy during WWII and served in combat operations on the USS Dempsey.

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