Education
He earned a joint Juris Doctor/Master of Business Administration from the University of North Carolina School of Law and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1987.
He earned a joint Juris Doctor/Master of Business Administration from the University of North Carolina School of Law and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1987.
Foreign the 19th-century baseball player, see Frank Whitney (baseball). He entered private practice in Washington, District of Columbia, in 1987. From 1988-1989 he was a law clerk for the Honorary
David B. Sentelle of the United States. Court of Appeals for District of Columbia Circuit before returning to private practice from 1989-1990.
He was an assistant United States. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina from 1990-2001. He was in private practice in Charlotte, North Carolina from 2001 to 2002, and was then the United States. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina from 2002-2006.
Whitney was nominated by President George West. Bush on February 14, 2006, to a seat on the United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina vacated by H. Brent McKnight. Whitney was confirmed by the United States Senate on June 22, 2006, and received his commission on July 5, 2006.
On June 2, 2013 he was appointed Chief Judge.
Whitney has served in the United States Army Reserve since 1982. According to a Judge Advocate General Corps historian, he is the first federal judge to serve as a military judge presiding over courts-martial in a combat theater. He also presided over the last court martial in Iraq before the complete withdrawal of United States. troops from the country.
Frank DeArmon Whitney at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
Resume at the United States Department of Justice archive.
Born in Charlotte, North Carolina, Whitney received a Bachelor of Arts from Wake Forest University in 1982 where he was a member of the Reserve Officers Training Corps program and inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa Society.