Charles Clark (judge)

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This article concerns a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. For Judge Charles Clark who served on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from 1939 to 1963, see Charles Edward Clark.

Charles Clark (born 1925) is a retired United States federal judge from Mississippi.

Clark was born in Memphis, Tennessee. He entered the U.S. Naval Reserve as an ensign in 1943 and left the Reserve after the end of World War II three years later. He started the practice of law in 1946 in Jackson, Mississippi. He continued the practice of law for five years, picking up an LL.B. from the University of Mississippi in 1948, then rejoined the Naval Reserve as a Lieutenant as the Korean War heated up in 1951. He left the Naval Reserve the following year, and picked up his law practice in 1953.

On October 7, 1969, President Richard M. Nixon nominated Clark to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He was confirmed by the Senate on October 15 and received his commission two days later.

Clark was Chief Judge of the Fifth Circuit from 1981 until his retirement from the court on January 15, 1992.