David C. Godbey

David C. Godbey (born 1957, Temple, Texas) is a United States federal judge serving on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas in Dallas, Texas.

Godbey received a B.S. in electrical engineering from Southern Methodist University in 1978 and a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1982. He was a law clerk to Judge Irving Goldberg of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit from 1982 to 1983. He was in private practice in Dallas from 1983 to 1994. He was a judge on the 160th District Court, State of Texas from 1994 to 2002.

Godbey was nominated by President George W. Bush on January 23, 2002, to a seat vacated by Robert B. Maloney. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on August 1, 2002, and received his commission on August 2, 2002.

Godbey holds a black belt in taekwondo.

Sources

David C. Godbey at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
John Council, "A Black Belt in a Black Robe", Texas Lawyer, July 27, 2009 (registration required)

Legal offices
Preceded by Robert B. Maloney	Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas 2002–present	Incumbent

Current active district judges of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals

E. Louisiana	Engelhardt Feldman Vance Fallon Barbier Zainey Africk Brown Triche-Milazzo Morgan 2 seats vacant

M. Louisiana	Jackson Dick deGravelles

W. Louisiana	Drell Doherty Minaldi Hicks Foote 2 seats vacant

N. Mississippi	Aycock Mills Brown

S. Mississippi	Guirola Wingate Starrett Jordan Ozerden Reeves

E. Texas	Clark Crone Gilstrap Mazzant Schroeder 3 seats vacant

N. Texas	Lynn Fitzwater McBryde Lindsay Godbey Kinkeade Boyle O'Connor 4 seats vacant

S. Texas	Rosenthal Hinojosa Hughes Lake Harmon Gilmore Ellison Crane Hanen Alvarez Miller Saldaña Ramos Marmolejo Bennett Hanks Olvera 2 seats vacant

W. Texas	Garcia Sparks Biery Martinez Ludlum Cardone Yeakel Montalvo Rodriguez Guaderrama Pitman 2 seats vacant

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