He was an attorney in the General Litigation Section of the Claims Division of the United States Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. from 1951 to 1952.
[1] Holloway was nominated by President Lyndon B. Johnson on August 2, 1968, to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, to a new seat created by 82 Stat.
His service terminated on April 25, 2014, due to his death of a respiratory ailment in Oklahoma City.
[5] Actor Ben Carlson plays Judge Holloway in the 2018 film On the Basis of Sex, about the life and early cases of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
The Oklahoma City University Law Review published a memorial issue in honor of his death in 2014.