He also attended the United States Army War College, The Hague Academy of International Law, and the Executive Management Program at the University of Pittsburgh.
During World War II, he served in the United States Army, later serving in the Judge Advocate General's Corps stationed in Korea and Vietnam, and was eventually appointed as the Army's Chief Judge before his retirement from the service at the rank of Brigadier General in 1975.
[1] Sneeden was nominated by President Ronald Reagan on August 1, 1984, to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, to a new seat created by 98 Stat.
He was confirmed by the United States Senate on October 4, 1984, and received his commission the same day.
[1] After his resignation from the bench, Sneeden returned to private practice in Washington, D.C. until his death from cancer on September 24, 1987, in Durham, North Carolina.