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William Yohn

Nonpartisan

United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Tenure

2003 - Present

Years in position

22

Prior offices:

United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Years in office: 1991 - 2003

Successor:Gene Pratter (Nonpartisan)

Education

Bachelor's

Princeton, 1957

Law

Yale Law, 1960

Personal

Birthplace

Pottstown, PA

William Hendricks Yohn, Jr. is afederal judge for theUnited States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He joined the court in 1991 after being nominated by PresidentGeorge H.W. Bush.

Early life and education

Born in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, Yohn graduated from Princeton University with his bachelor's degree in 1957 and from Yale Law School with his Juris Doctor degree in 1960. Yohn completed coursework at theNational Judicial CollegeinReno, Nevada.^[1]

From 1960 to 1966, Yohn served in theUnited States Marine Corps Reserves from 1960 to 1965, serving on active duty in 1966.^[1]

Professional career

Yohn was a private practice attorney in the State ofPennsylvania from 1961 to 1981. From 1962 to 1965, Yohn was an Assistant District Attorney ofMontgomery County, Pennsylvania from 1962 to 1965. ThePennsylvania House of Representatives elected Yohn to serve as Congressional Representative from 1968 to 1980. Yohn was a Common Pleas Judge in the Court of Common Pleas for Montgomery County, Pennsylvania from 1981 to 1991.^[1]

Judicial career

Eastern District of Pennsylvania

On the recommendation of Pennsylvania U.S. Senators John Heinz III and Arlen Specter, Yohn was nominated to theUnited States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania by PresidentGeorge H.W. Bush on June 14, 1991 to a seat vacated byJohn Fullam. On September 12, 1991, the U.S. Senate voted to confirm Yohn, and Yohn received commission onSeptember 16, 1991.^[2]

Noteworthy cases

Judge Yohn was supposed to be the judge presiding in the corruption trial of formerPennsylvania Senator Vincent Fuomo. When jury selection in the trial began in September of 2008, Yohn became seriously ill, which delayed the highly publicized trial. The case was re-assigned to senior federal judgeRonald Buckwalter.^[3]

See also

• United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

External links

Suggest a link

• The Robing Room- Rate Judge Yohn
• Judge Yohn's Biography at the Federal Judicial Center
• The Inquirer, "Judge blocks city’s homeless-feeding crackdown," July 13, 2012

Footnotes

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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 judges	Carol 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  •

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