Phyllis Kravitch

Prior offices:

United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit

Years in office: 1996 - 2017

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Years in office: 1981 - 1996

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United States Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit

Years in office: 1979 - 1981

Education

Bachelor's

Goucher College, 1941

Law

University of Pennsylvania Law School, 1943

Personal

Birthplace

Savannah, GA

Phyllis A. Kravitch was afederal judge on theUnited States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit. She was reassigned to a new seat on theEleventh Circuit on October 1, 1981, which was created by a statute reorganizing theUnited States Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit. She elected to takesenior status beginning on December 31, 1996, and she served as asenior federal judge until her death on June 15, 2017.

Prior to her reassignment to the Eleventh Circuit, Judge Kravitch served on theUnited States Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit from 1979 to 1981.^[1]

Early life and education

Born inSavannah, Georgia, Kravitch earned her B.A. from Goucher College in 1941 and herLL.B. from the University of Pennsylvania School of Law in 1943.^[1]

Professional career

• 1981-2017:United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit

• 1996-2017: Senior judge
• 1981-1996: Judge

• 1979-1981: Judge,United States Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit
• 1977-1979: Judge,Superior Court of Georgia
• 1944-1976: Private practice,Savannah, Ga.

Judicial career

Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals

Kravitch was reassigned to a new seat on theUnited States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit on October 1, 1981, which was created by a statute reorganizing theUnited States Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit. She elected to takesenior status beginning onDecember 31, 1996, and she served as a senior federal judge until her death on June 15, 2017. She was succeeded in this position by JudgeFrank Hull.^[1]

Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals

Kravitch was nominated to theUnited States Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit by PresidentJimmy Carter on January 19, 1979, to a seat vacated byLewis Morgan. Kravitch was confirmed by theU.S. Senate on March 21, 1979, and she received her commission onMarch 23, 1979. Kravitch's service on theFifth Circuit terminated on October 1, 1981, due to her reassignment to theEleventh Circuit Court of Appeals.^[1]

See also

• United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit
• United States Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit

External links

• Judge Kravitch's biography from theFederal Judicial Center

Footnotes

v • e Federal judges who have served theU.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Active judges	Chief Judge: Jennifer Elrod  •  Don Willett  •  James Graves  •  Carl Stewart  •  Edith Jones  •  Leslie Southwick  •  Priscilla Richman  •  Catharina Haynes  •  Jerry Edwin Smith (Fifth Circuit)  •  Kurt Engelhardt  •  Irma Ramirez  •  Stephen Higginson  •  Cory Wilson  •  Stuart Kyle Duncan  •  James Ho  •  Andrew Oldham  •  Dana Douglas
Senior judges	James Dennis  •  Carolyn King  •  Patrick Higginbotham  •  Edith Clement  •  Fortunato Benavides  •  Jacques Wiener  •  W. Eugene Davis  •  Grady Jolly  •  Rhesa Barksdale  •
Former judges	John Minor Wisdom  •  Edward Harris  •  Peter Fay  •  John Godbold  •  Robert Lanier Anderson  •  Phyllis Kravitch  •  Gerald Tjoflat  •  Joseph Hatchett  •  Albert Henderson  •  Paul Roney  •  David Dyer  •  Elbert Tuttle  •  Thomas Clark (Eleventh Circuit)  •  Richard Rives  •  Robert Vance  •  Lewis Morgan  •  James Hill (Federal judge)  •  Andrew Phelps McCormick  •  Don Albert Pardee  •  Thomas Reavley  •  John Duhe  •  Harold DeMoss  •  Edward Prado  •  Robert Madden Hill  •  Alvin Rubin  •  Henry Politz  •  Reynaldo Garza  •  Albert Tate, Jr.  •  Jerre Williams  •  Robert Parker  •  Charles Pickering  •  David Davie Shelby  •  Rufus Edward Foster  •  Robert Lynn Batts  •  Nathan Philemon Bryan  •  Edwin Ruthven Holmes  •  Joseph Chappell Hutcheson Jr.  •  Alexander Campbell King  •  Samuel Hale Sibley  •  Claude Feemster Clayton  •  Richard Wilde Walker  •  Wayne Borah  •  Louie Willard Strum  •  Irving Goldberg  •  Leon McCord  •  Warren Leroy Jones  •  Robert Ainsworth  •  Joe Ingraham  •  William Thornberry  •  George Carswell  •  Curtis Waller  •  Griffin Bell  •  John Robert Brown (Federal judge)  •  Benjamin Cameron  •  James Coleman (federal judge)  •  Thomas Gee  •  Walter Gewin  •  Samuel Johnson  •  Elmo Lee  •  John Bryan Simpson  •  Frank M. Johnson, Jr.  •  Charles Clark (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit)  •  Robert Lee Russell (Federal judge)  •  Gregg Costa  •
Former Chief judges	John Godbold  •  Elbert Tuttle  •  Richard Rives  •  Carl Stewart  •  Carolyn King  •  Priscilla Richman  •  Henry Politz  •  Joseph Chappell Hutcheson Jr.  •  John Robert Brown (Federal judge)  •  James Coleman (federal judge)  •  Charles Clark (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit)  •

v • e Federal judges who have served theU.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Active judges	Chief Judge: William Pryor  •  Adalberto Jordan  •  Barbara Lagoa  •  Robin Rosenbaum  •  Jill Pryor  •  Elizabeth Branch  •  Robert J. Luck  •  Britt Grant  •  Kevin Newsom  •  Andrew Brasher  •  Embry Kidd  •  Nancy Gbana Abudu
Senior judges	Stanley Marcus  •  Julie Carnes  •  Robert Lanier Anderson  •  Gerald Tjoflat  •  James Edmondson (Federal judge)  •  Joel Dubina  •  Susan Black (Eleventh Circuit)  •  Frank Hull  •  Charles Wilson (Florida)  •  Edward Carnes  •
Former judges	Beverly Martin  •  Peter Fay  •  John Godbold  •  Phyllis Kravitch  •  Joseph Hatchett  •  Albert Henderson  •  Paul Roney  •  David Dyer  •  Elbert Tuttle  •  Thomas Clark (Eleventh Circuit)  •  Richard Rives  •  Robert Vance  •  Lewis Morgan  •  Emmett Cox  •  Stanley Birch  •  Rosemary Barkett  •  James Hill (Federal judge)  •  Warren Leroy Jones  •  John Bryan Simpson  •  Frank M. Johnson, Jr.  •
Former Chief judges	John Godbold  •  Robert Lanier Anderson  •  Gerald Tjoflat  •  Joseph Hatchett  •  James Edmondson (Federal judge)  •  Paul Roney  •  Joel Dubina  •  Edward Carnes  •

v • e Federal judges nominated byJimmy Carter
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1978	Arnold •Baker •Boyle •Burns •Campos •Claiborne •Collins •Cook •Devine •Diamond •Duplantier •Edenfield •Friedman •Gonzalez •Greene •Jenkins •Lowe •Mazzone •McMillian •O'Brien •Pfaelzer •Phillips •Pollak •Sand •Shapiro •Simmons •Smith •Sweet •Tanner •Wiseman •Ziegler
1979	Ackerman •Alarcon •Anderson •Arceneaux •Arnold •Aspen •Beatty •Beer •Belew •Bertelsman •Bilby •N. Black •S. Black •Bloch •Bowen •Brett •Brooks •Brown •Buchmeyer •Bunton •Burciaga •Cabranes •Carr •Carrigan •Castagna •Cire •Clark •Cohn •Conaboy •Cordova •Crabb •Cudahy •Davis •DeAnda •Debevoise •Edwards •Eginton •Ellison •Enslen •O. Evans •T. Evans •Farris •Ferguson •Fletcher •Frye •Garcia •Garza •B. Gibson •H. Gibson •Gierbolini-Ortiz •Giles •Gilliam •Green •Hall •Hastings •Hatchett •Hatfield •Hatter •Hawkins •Henderson •Higby •Hillman •Houck •Howard •Hudspeth •Hungate •F. Johnson •S. Johnson •N. Jones •S. Jones •Karlton •Kazen •Kearse •Keeton •Kehoe •Kennedy •Kidd •King •Kravitch •Loughlin •Martin •McCurn •McDonald •McNaught •McNichols •Mikva •Mitchell •Moran •Murnaghan •Murphy •D. Nelson •D.W. Nelson •Newblatt •Newman •Overton •Paine •Panner •J. Parker •R. Parker •Penn •Perez-Gimenez •Perry •Politz •Poole •Porter •Pregerson •Price •Rambo •Ramirez •Reavley •Redden •E. Reed •S. Reed •Reinhardt •Renner •Robinson •Rothstein •Sachs •Saffels •Sanders •Sarokin •Schroeder •Schwartz •Seay •Senter •Seymour •Shannon •Shaw •Shoob •Skopil •Sloviter •Sofaer •Spellman •Sprouse •Staker •Tate •Taylor •Thompson •Tidwell •Unthank •Vietor •Vining •Wald •Ward •Weinshienk •West •Wicker •Williams •Winder •Woods •Wright • Zobel
1980	Aguilar •Aldrich •Anderson •Boochever •Breyer •Britt •Cahill •Canby •Carroll •Cerezo •Clemon •S. Ervin •R. Erwin •Getzendanner •Gilmore •Ginsburg •Haltom •Hardy •Henderson •Hobbs •Holschuh •Horton •Howard •Johnson •Keep •Kelly •Kenyon •Kocoras •Marquez •Marshall •Michael •Nixon •Norris •Patel •Polozola •Propst •Quackenbush •Ramsey •Rice •Shadur •Spiegel •Tashima •Thompson •Vela •White •Williams
1981	Heen