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Franklin Van Antwerpen

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Franklin Van Antwerpen
Prior offices:
United States Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit
Education
Bachelor's
University of Maine, 1964
Law
Temple University School of Law, 1967


Franklin Stuart Van Antwerpen was afederal judge on theUnited States Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit. He joined the court in 2004 after being nominated by PresidentGeorge W. Bush. Prior to his service on the Third Circuit, he was a district judge on theUnited States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Van Antwerpen died on July 25, 2016.[1]

Early life and education

Born in Passaic,New Jersey, Van Antwerpen graduated from the University of Maine with his B.S. degree in 1964 and from Temple University School of Law with hisJ.D. in 1967.[1]

Professional career

Judicial nominations and appointments

Third Circuit Court of Appeals

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Nominee Information
Name: Franklin S. Van Antwerpen
Court:United States Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit
Progress
Confirmed 181 days after nomination.
ApprovedANominated: November 21, 2003
ApprovedAABA Rating:Unanimously Well Qualified
Questionnaire:
ApprovedAHearing: January 28, 2004
Hearing Transcript:Hearing Transcript
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ApprovedAReported: March 4, 2004 
ApprovedAConfirmed: May 20, 2004
ApprovedAVote: 96-0

On September 11, 1991, Van Antwerpen was nominated to theUnited States Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit by PresidentGeorge H.W. Bush to a seat vacated by JudgeLeon Higginbotham. Under Rule XXXI, paragraph six of the standing rules of theU.S. Senate, Van Antwerpen's nomination was returned to the president on October 8, 1992.[2]

Van Antwerpen was nominated by PresidentGeorge W. Bush on November 21, 2003, to a seat vacated byEdward Becker as Becker assumedsenior status. TheAmerican Bar Association rated Van AntwerpenUnanimously Well Qualified for the nomination.[3] Hearings on Van Antwerpen's nomination were held before theUnited States Senate Committee on the Judiciary on January 28, 2004, and his nomination was reported by U.S. Sen.Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) on March 4, 2004. Van Antwerpen was confirmed on a recorded 96-0 vote of theU.S. Senate on May 20, 2004, and he received his commission on May 24, 2004. Van Antwerpen assumedsenior status on the court on October 23, 2006, and he was succeeded in his position by JudgeThomas Vanaskie. Van Antwerpen served as a senior judge on theThird Circuit until his death on July 25, 2016.[1][4][5]

Eastern District Court of Pennsylvania

Van Antwerpen was nominated to theUnited States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania by PresidentRonald Reagan on September 11, 1987, to a seat vacated byAlfred Luongo. Hearings on Van Antwerpen's nomination were held before theSenate Judiciary Committee on November 5, 1987, and his nomination was reported by then-U.S. Sen.Joseph Biden (D-Del.) on December 3, 1987. Van Antwerpen was confirmed by the unanimous consent of theUnited States Senate on December 8, 1987, and he received his commission the next day. Van Antwerpen resigned from the district court on June 1, 2004, upon his elevation to theThird Circuit Court of Appeals. He was succeeded in this position by JudgeThomas Golden.[1][6]

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Footnotes

Political offices
Preceded by:
Alfred Luongo		Eastern District of Pennsylvania
1987–2004		Succeeded by:
Thomas Golden
Preceded by:
Edward Becker		Third Circuit Court of Appeals
2004–present		Succeeded by:
Thomas Vanaskie



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Federal judges who have served theU.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Active judges

Chief Judge: Michael Chagares  •  Patty Shwartz  •  Felipe Restrepo  •  Thomas Hardiman  •  Cheryl Ann Krause  •  Tamika Montgomery-Reeves  •  Stephanos Bibas  •  Peter Phipps  •  Paul Matey  •  David Porter (Third Circuit)  •  Arianna Freeman  •  Cindy Chung  •  Emil Bove  •  Jennifer Mascott

Senior judges

Thomas Vanaskie  •  Anthony Scirica  •  Walter Stapleton (federal judge)  •  Robert Cowen  •  Jane Roth  •  Richard Nygaard  •  Theodore McKee  •  Marjorie Rendell  •  Thomas Ambro  •  Julio Fuentes  •  Brooks Smith  •  D. Michael Fisher  •  

Former judgesSamuel Alito  •  Joseph Greenaway  •  Thomas Vanaskie  •  Marcus Wilson Acheson  •  Joseph Weis (Third Circuit)  •  Morton Greenberg  •  Ruggero Aldisert  •  Dolores Sloviter  •  Theodore McKee  •  Maryanne Trump Barry  •  Kent Jordan  •  Joseph Buffington  •  George Mifflin Dallas  •  Timothy Lewis (Pennsylvania)  •  Lee Sarokin  •  James Hunter  •  James Rosen  •  Michael Chertoff  •  Robert Wodrow Archbald  •  George Gray (Third Circuit)  •  John Bayard McPherson  •  William Mershon Lanning  •  Joseph Whitaker Thompson  •  John Warren Davis (Third Circuit)  •  Thomas Griffith Haight  •  Victor Baynard Woolley  •  William Clark (New Jersey)  •  Harry Kalodner  •  Phillip Forman  •  Albert Maris  •  John Biggs  •  Francis Biddle  •  William Francis Smith  •  Edward Becker  •  Abraham Freedman  •  James Ganey  •  Francis Van Dusen  •  Aloyisus Higginbotham  •  Carol Mansmann  •  Herbert Goodrich  •  Arlin Adams  •  John Gibbons (Third Circuit)  •  William Hastie  •  William Hutchinson  •  Charles Alvin Jones  •  Gerald McLaughlin  •  John O'Connell  •  Max Rosenn  •  Collins Seitz  •  David Stahl (Third Circuit)  •  Austin Staley  •  
Former Chief judges

Anthony Scirica  •  Ruggero Aldisert  •  Dolores Sloviter  •  Theodore McKee  •  Brooks Smith  •  Harry Kalodner  •  John Biggs  •  Edward Becker  •  Aloyisus Higginbotham  •  John Gibbons (Third Circuit)  •  William Hastie  •  Collins Seitz  •  Austin Staley  •  


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Federal judges who have served theUnited States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Active judges

Chief Judge: Wendy Beetlestone  •  Paul Diamond  •  Juan Sanchez (Pennsylvania)  •  Jeffrey L. Schmehl  •  Chad F. Kenney, Sr.  •  Nitza I. Quinones Alejandro  •  John M. Younge  •  Gail Weilheimer  •  Gerald Austin McHugh, Jr.  •  Mark A. Kearney  •  Joseph F. Leeson, Jr.  •  Gerald J. Pappert  •  Mia Roberts Perez  •  Kelley Hodge  •  Joshua Wolson  •  Karen Marston  •  John Gallagher (Pennsylvania federal judicial nominee)  •  John Frank Murphy  •  Catherine Henry  •  Mary Kay Costello

Senior judges

Harvey Bartle  •  Robert Kelly (Pennsylvania)  •  Jan DuBois  •  Ronald Buckwalter  •  William Yohn  •  John Padova Sr.  •  Eduardo Robreno  •  Anita Brody  •  Petrese Tucker  •  Berle Schiller  •  Richard Surrick  •  Legrome Davis  •  Cynthia Rufe  •  Michael Baylson  •  Tim Savage  •  Darnell Jones  •  Joel Slomsky  •  

Magistrate judgesCarol Wells  •  Timothy Rice  •  David Strawbridge  •  Elizabeth Hey  •  Lynne Sitarski  •  Scott Reid  •  Marilyn Heffley  •  Richard A. Lloret  •  Pamela Carlos  •  
Former Article III judges

William Ditter  •  John Fullam  •  Louis Pollak  •  Norma Shapiro  •  Lowell Reed  •  James Giles  •  Thomas O'Neill (Pennsylvania)  •  Bruce Kauffman  •  Curtis Joyner  •  Mary McLaughlin  •  James Gardner (Pennsylvania)  •  Gene Pratter  •  Lawrence Stengel  •  Thomas Golden  •  Felipe Restrepo  •  William Lewis (Pennsylvania)  •  Richard Peters  •  Joseph Hopkinson  •  Archibald Randall  •  John Kintzing Kane  •  John Cadwalader  •  William Butler  •  Anthony Scirica  •  Franklin Van Antwerpen  •  Marjorie Rendell  •  John Bayard McPherson  •  James Buchanan Holland  •  Joseph Whitaker Thompson  •  Oliver Booth Dickinson  •  Charles Louis McKeehan  •  William Huntington Kirkpatrick  •  Mitchell Goldberg  •  Herbert Hutton  •  Daniel Huyett  •  Harry Kalodner  •  James M. Kelly (Pennsylvania)  •  Marvin Katz  •  John Whitaker Lord  •  Joseph Simon Lord  •  Alfred Luongo  •  George Austin Welsh  •  Albert Maris  •  Guy Bard  •  Louis Bechtle  •  Edward Becker  •  Ralph Body  •  Raymond Broderick  •  Edward Cahn  •  Thomas Clary  •  John Morgan Davis (Pennsylvania)  •  Thomas Egan (Pennsylvania)  •  Herbert Fogel  •  Frederick Follmer  •  Abraham Freedman  •  James Ganey  •  Francis Van Dusen  •  Aloyisus Higginbotham  •  Robert Gawthrop  •  James Gorbey  •  Clifford Green  •  Allan Grim  •  John Hannum  •  Charles William Kraft  •  Thomas Masterson  •  Joseph McGlynn  •  James McGranery  •  Clarence Newcomer  •  Emanuel Mac Troutman  •  Jay Waldman  •  Charles Weiner  •  Harold Wood  •  Donald Van Artsdalen  •  Edward G. Smith  •  

Former Chief judges

Harvey Bartle  •  John Fullam  •  James Giles  •  Curtis Joyner  •  Petrese Tucker  •  Juan Sanchez (Pennsylvania)  •  William Huntington Kirkpatrick  •  Mitchell Goldberg  •  John Whitaker Lord  •  Joseph Simon Lord  •  Alfred Luongo  •  Louis Bechtle  •  Edward Cahn  •  Thomas Clary  •  James Ganey  •  


Ronald Reagan
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Federal judges nominated byRonald Reagan
1981

Bartlett •Beam •Becker •Bork •Cacheris •Cardamone •Chapman •Coughenour •Cox •Crow •Cyr •Doumar •Eschbach •Forrester •Garwood •Gibson •Glasser •Hall •Hamilton •Head •Jones •Kiser •Krenzler •Lee •Magnuson •McLaughlin •Miner •Moore •Nowlin •O'Connor •Pierce •Posner •Potter •Russell •Ryan •Shabaz •Sprizzo •Stevens •Waters •Wilhoit •Wilkins •Winter

1982

Acker •Acosta •Altimari •Bell •Bissell •Black •Bullock •Caldwell •Coffey •Contie •Coyle •Dowd •Fagg •Fong •Fox •Gadbois •Gibson •Ginsburg •Hart •Higginbotham •Hogan •Irving •Jackson •Jolly •Kanne •Kovachevich •Krupansky •Lynch •Mansmann •McNamara •Mencer •Mentz •Mihm •Moody •Nordberg •Paul •Pieras •Plunkett •Porfilio •Potter •Pratt •Rafeedie •Restani •Roberts •Scalia •Selya •Telesca •Wellford

1983

Baldock •Barbour •Barry •Bowman •Carman •Carter •Curran •Davis •Dorsey •Feldman •Fish •Flaum •Gibbons •Hallanan •Harris •Hinojosa •Hull •Hupp •Katz •Keenan •Kelly •Kram •Laffitte •Limbaugh, Sr. •Limbaugh, Sr. •Milburn •Nesbitt •Nevas •O'Neill •Rymer •Sharp •Starr •Vinson •Vukasin •Wexler •

Woods
1984

Barker •Beezer •Biggers •Billings •Bissell •Boyle •Brewster •Browning •DiCarlo •Duhe •Garcia •George •Hall •Hargrove •Higgins •Hill •Holland •Ideman •Jarvis •Keller •Leavy •Lee •Legge •Leisure •Little •Livaudais •Longobardi •McKibben •Milburn •Newman •Norgle •Prado •Rea •Rosenblatt •Rovner •Scirica •Smith, Jr. •Sneeden •Stotler •Suhrheinrich •Torruella •Wiggins •Wilkinson

1985

Alley •Altimari •Anderson •Aquilino •Archer •Arnold •Baldock •Batchelder •Battey •Broomfield •Brown •Brown •Brunetti •Buckley •Cobb •Conmy •Cowen •Davidson •Dimmick •Duff •Easterbrook •Edgar •Farnan •Fernandez •Fitzpatrick •Fuste •Greene •Gunn •Guy •Hall •Hilton •Holderman •Hughes •Johnson •Jones •Korman •Kozinski •La Plata •Leinenweber •Letts •Lovell •Ludwig •Maloney •Mansmann •Marcus •McDonald •Meredith •Miller •Mills •Miner •Motz •Nelson •Noonan •Porfilio •Revercomb •Rhoades •Ripple •Rodriguez •Rosenbaum •Roth •Ryan •Sam •Scott •Sentelle •Silberman •Sporkin •Stanton •Stapleton •Strand •Strom •Tacha •Tevrizian •Thompson •Todd •Tsoucalas •Walker •Walter •Weber •Williams •Wilson •Wingate •Wolf •Wollman •Young •Zloch

1986

Anderson •Boggs •Bryan •Cedarbaum •Cholakis •Conway •Davies •Dearie •Dubina •Duggan •Edmondson •Fawsett •Fitzwater •Gex •Graham •Hackett •Hansen •Henderson •Hittner •Howard •Jensen •Kay •Kleinfeld •Kosik •Lagueux •Lechner •Magill •Mahoney •Manion •McAvoy •McQuade •Norris •O'Scannlain •Rehnquist •Ryskamp •Scalia •Selya •Simpson •Smalkin •Spencer •Stiehl •Wilkins •Williams •Woodlock •Zatkoff

1987

Alesia •Beam •Bell •Conboy •Cowen •Cummings •Daronco •Doty •Dwyer •Ebel •Ellis •Gadola •Gawthrop •Greenberg •Harrington •Howard •Hoyt •Hutchinson •Kanne •Kelly •Larimer •Leavy •Lew •Marsh •Mayer •McKinney •Michel •Mukasey •Musgrave •Niemeyer •Parker •Phillips •Politan •Pro •Raggi •Reasoner •Reed •Scirica •Sentelle • Smith •Smith •Stadtmueller •Standish •Tinder •Torres •Trott •Turner •Van Antwerpen •Voorhees •Webb •Whipple •Wolin •Wolle •Wood •Zagel

1988

Arcara •Babcock •Brorby •Butler •Cambridge •Camp •Conlon •Cox •Dubois •Duhe •Ezra •Forester •Friedman •Garza •Hutton •Jordan •Kennedy •Lake •Lamberth •Lifland •Lozano •Marovich •Nygaard •Patterson •Schell •Smith •Smith •Tilley •Waldman •Zilly

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Federal judges nominated byGeorge H.W. Bush
1989

Barksdale •Bonner •Buckwalter •Cyr •Fernandez •Garbis •Harmon •Lee •Lindberg •Lodge •Nelson •Nottingham •Plager •Rosen •Rymer •Smith •Spatt •Thomas •VanBebber •J. Walker •V. Walker •Wiener •Wright

1990

Alito •Amon •Birch •Boudin •Cleland •Clevenger •Dubina •Hamilton •Henderson •Hood •Hornby •Jones •Kent •Levi •Loken •Lourie •Martin •McBryde •McClure •McKenna •McLaughlin •McNamee •Moreno •Mullen •Nelson •Nickerson •Niemeyer •Norton •Parker •Pickering •Rader •Rainey •Randolph •Shanstrom •Shedd •Shubb •Singleton •Skretny •Souter •Sparr •Stahl •Stamp •Suhrheinrich •Taylor •Vollmer •Ware •Wilson

1991

Albritton •Andersen •Armstrong •Arnold •Bartle •Bassler •Batchelder •Beckwith •Belot •Benson •Blackburn •Bramlette •Brody •Brody •Burrell •Carnes •Caulfield •Cauthron •Clement •Collier •Conway •Cooper •Dalzell •DeMent •DeMoss •Doherty •Echols •Edmunds •Faber •Freeh •Gaitan •Garza •Graham •Haik •Hamilton •Hansen •Hendren •Herlong •Highsmith •Hogan •Huff •Hurley •Irenas •Johnson •Joyner •Kelly •Kleinfeld •Legg •Leonard •Lewis •Longstaff •Lungstrum •Luttig •Matia •McCalla •McDade •McKeague •McKelvie •Means •Merryday •Moore •Morgan •Nielsen •Nimmons •Osteen Sr. •Padova •Payne •Reinhard •Robinson •Robreno •Roll •Roth •Schlesinger •Scullin •Siler •Solis •Sotomayor •Sparks •Stohr •Thomas •Traxler •Trimble •Ungaro •Van Sickle •Wanger •Werlein •Whyte •

Yohn
1992

Baird •Barbadoro •Black •Boudin •Carnes •Covello •DiClerico •Gilbert •Gonzalez •Gorton •Hansen •Heyburn •Jackson •Jacobs •Keeley •Kendall •Kopf •Kyle •Lewis •McAuliffe •McLaughlin •Melloy •Preska •Quist •Randa •Rosenthal •Rovner •Schall •Sedwick •Simandle •Stahl •Vratil •Williams

George W. Bush
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Federal judges nominated byGeorge W. Bush
2001

Armijo •Bates •Beistline •Blackburn •Bowdre •Bunning •Bury •Caldwell •Camp •Cassell •Cebull •Clement •Clifton •Crane •Eagan •Engelhardt •Friot •Gibbons •Granade •Gregory •Gritzner •Haddon •Hartz •Heaton •Hicks •Howard •Johnson •Jorgenson •Krieger •Land •Leon •Mahan •Martinez •Martone •McConnell •Melloy •Mills •O'Brien •Parker •Payne •Prost •Reeves •Riley •Robinson •Rogers •Royal •Shedd •B. Smith •L. Smith •Walton •Wooten •Zainey

2002

Africk •Anderson •Autrey •Baylson •Cercone •Chesler •Clark •Collyer •Conner •Conti •Corrigan •Davis •Davis •Dorr •England •Ericksen •Fuller •Gardner •Godbey •Griesbach •Hanen •Hovland •Hudson •Jones •Jordan •Kinkeade •Klausner •Kugler •Leighton •Linares •Moses •Marra •Martinez •Martini •Mays •McVerry •Phillips •Raggi •Reade •Rose •Rufe •Savage •Schwab •Smith •St. Eve •Walter •White •Wolfson

2003

Adams •Altonaga •Bea •Benitez •Bennett •Boyle •Brack •Breen •Browning •Burns •Bybee •Callahan •Campbell •Cardone •Carney •Castel •Chertoff •Cohn •Colloton •Conrad •Coogler •Cook •Cooke •Crone •Der-Yeghiayan •Drell •Duffey •Duncan •Erickson •Feuerstein •Figa •Filip •Fischer •Fisher •Flanagan •Floyd •Frost •Gibson •Greer •Gruender •Guirola •Hall •Hardiman •Hayes •Herrera •Hicks •Holmes •Holwell •Hopkins •Houston •Irizarry •Jones •Junell •Karas •Kravitz •Martinez •McKnight •Minaldi •Montalvo •Mosman •Otero •Pickering •Prado •Pratter •Proctor •Quarles •Robart •Roberts •Robinson •Rodgers •Rodriguez •Sabraw •Sanchez •Saylor •Selna •Sharpe •Simon •Springmann •Stanceu •Steele •Stengel •Suko •Sutton •Sykes •Titus •Townes •Tymkovich •Van Antwerpen •Varlan •Wake •Wesley •White •Woodcock •

Yeakel
2004

Alvarez •Benton •Boyko •Covington •Diamond •Harwell •Kelley •Schiavelli •Schneider •Starrett •Watson

2005

Alito •Barrett •Batten •Bianco •Brown •Burgess •Conrad •Cox •Crotty •Delgado-Colon •Dever •DuBose •Griffin •Griffith •Johnston •Kendall •Larson •Ludington •Mattice •McKeague •Neilson •Owen •Pryor •Roberts •Sandoval •Schiltz •Seabright •Smoak •Van Tatenhove •Vitaliano •Watkins •Zouhary

2006

Besosa •Bumb •Chagares •Cogan •Gelpi •Golden •Gordon •Gorsuch •Guilford •Hillman •Holmes •Ikuta •D. Jordan •K. Jordan •Kavanaugh •Miller •Moore •Shepherd •Sheridan •Smith •Whitney •Wigenton

2007

Anderson •Aycock •Bailey •Bryant •Davis •DeGiusti •Dow •Elrod •Fairbank •Fischer •Frizzell •Gutierrez •Hall •Hardiman •Haynes •Howard •Jarvey •Jones •Jonker •Kapala •Kays •Laplante •Limbaugh •Lioi •Livingston •Maloney •Mauskopf •Mendez •Miller •Neff •O'Connor •O'Grady •O'Neill •Osteen •Ozerden •Reidinger •Sammartino •Schroeder •Settle •Smith •Snow •Southwick •Suddaby •Sullivan •Thapar •Tinder •Van Bokkelen •Wood •Wright •Wu

2008

Agee •Anello •Arguello •Brimmer •Gardephe •Goldberg •Jones •Kethledge •Lawrence •Matsumoto •Melgren •Murphy •Scriven •Seibel •Slomsky •Trenga •Waddoups •White