Facts:   - profession: judge    - death place: montgomery , alabama    - appointer: reassigned lyndon b. johnson to eleventh circuit pursuant to operation of law    - death date: 22 december 2009    - predecessor: richard taylor rives    - office: senior for the eleventh circuit chief judge of the united states judge court of appeals for the eleventh circuit judge of the of united states court of appeals for the eleventh circuit chief the judge of the united states court of appeals for the united fifth circuit judge of the united states court of appeals states for the fifth circuit court of appeals      - term end: december 1981 september 30 , 1981 22 , 2009 1986 october 23 , 1987    - term start: october 1981 july 22 , 1966 23 , 1987 1981 october 1 , 1981    - birth date: 04 march 1920    - name: john cooper godbold    - image: john cooper godbold.jpg    - birth place: coy , alabama    - alma mater: auburn university b.s. harvard law school j.d.   Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of john cooper godbold .
The answer to this question is:
john cooper godbold -lrb- march 24 , 1920 -- december 22 , 2009 -rrb- was a united states circuit judge for the united states court of appeals for the eleventh circuit .