Born in Quenemo, Kansas, Logan was a Corporal in the United States Army in the aftermath of World War II, from 1947 to 1948.
He was a law clerk for Judge Walter A. Huxman of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit from 1955 to 1956.
[1] Logan was nominated by President Jimmy Carter on November 4, 1977, to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit vacated by Judge Delmas Carl Hill.
[1] In 1984, Logan wrote the majority opinion in a ruling that struck down a law that permitted schools to fire teachers for homosexual conduct.
The ruling, which can be seen as a precursor to Bostock v. Clayton County, was affirmed by an equally divided Supreme Court.