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U.S. District Court in Pennsylvania
U.S. District Judges for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania,1828-2017(may be incomplete!)
JosephHopkinson 1828-42ArchibaldRandall 1842-46JohnK. Kane 1846JohnCadwalader 1858-79WilliamButler 1879-99JohnBayard McPherson 1899-1912JamesB. Holland 1904-14J.Whitaker Thompson 1912-31OliverB. Dickinson 1914-39CharlesLouis McKeehan 1923-25GeorgeA. Welsh 1932-57AlbertBranson Maris 1936-38HarryE. Kalodner 1938-46GuyK. Bard 1939-52J.Cullen Ganey 1940-61JamesP. McGranery 1946-52ThomasJames Clary 1949-69FrancisL. Van Dusen 1955-67C.William Kraft, Jr. 1955-70AbrahamL. Freedman 1961-64JosephS. Lord III 1961-76RalphC. Body 1962-72A.Leon Higginbotham, Jr. 1964-77ThomasAmbrose Masterson 1967-73E.Mac Troutman 1967-82EdwardRoy Becker 1970-82JamesH. Gorbey 1970-77RaymondJ. Broderick 1971-84ClarenceCharles Newcomer 1971-88CliffordScott Green 1971-88LouisC. Bechtle 1972-93JosephLeo McGlynn, Jr. 1974-90EdwardN. Cahn 1974-98LouisHeilprin Pollak 1978-91NormaLevy Shapiro 1978-98MarvinKatz 1983-97AnthonyJoseph Scirica 1984-87EdmundV. Ludwig 1985-97FranklinStuart Van Antwerpen 1987-2004JanEly DuBois 1988-2002HerbertJ. Hutton 1988-2003JayCarl Waldman 1988-2003RonaldLawrence Buckwalter 1990-2003HarveyBartle III 1991-StewartR. Dalzell 1991-2013AnitaBlumstein Brody 1992-MaryA. McLaughlin 2000-13BerleM. Schiller 2000-12R.Barclay Surrick 2000-11LegromeD. Davis 2002-TimothyJ. Savage 2002-JamesKnoll Gardner 2002-17LawrenceF. Stengel 2004-PaulSteven Diamond 2004-JuanRamon Sanchez 2004-ThomasM. Golden 2006-10JoelHarvey Slomsky 2008-JeffreyL. Schmehl 2013-GeraldAustin McHugh, Jr. 2014-EdwardGeorge Smith 2014-WendyBeetlestone 2014-
Officeholding Events(may be incomplete!)
U.S. District Judges for the Middle District of Pennsylvania,1901-2017(may be incomplete!)
RobertW. Archbald 1901-11AlbertW. Johnson 1925-AlbertLeisenring Watson 1929-55JohnW. Murphy 1946-62MichaelH. Sheridan 1961-76RobertDixon Herman 1969-81MalcolmMuir 1970-84RichardPaul Conaboy 1979-92SylviaH. Rambo 1979-2001WilliamW. Caldwell 1982-94JamesFocht McClure, Jr. 1990-2001A.Richard Caputo 1997-2009JamesMartin Munley 1998-2009ChristopherC. Conner 2002-JohnE. Jones 2002-RobertDavid Mariani 2011-MalachyEdward Mannion 2012-
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U.S. District Judges for the Western District of Pennsylvania,1818-2017(may be incomplete!)
JonathanHoge Walker 1818-24WilliamWilkins 1824-31ThomasIrwin 1831-59WilsonMcCandless 1859-76WinthropW. Ketchum 1876-79MarcusW. Acheson 1880-91JamesH. Reed 1891-92JosephBuffington 1892-1906NathanielEwing 1906-08CharlesPrentiss Orr 1909-22W.H. Seward Thomson 1914-28FredericPalen Schoonmaker 1922-45NelsonMcVicar 1928-51OwenMcIntosh Burns 1949-52RabeFerguson Marsh, Jr. 1950-77WilliamAlvah Stewart 1951-53JosephPutnam Willson 1953-68JohnLester Miller 1954-71JohnW. McIlvaine 1955-63HerbertP. Sorg 1955-76EdwardDumbauld 1961-76LouisRosenberg 1961-76GeraldJoseph Weber 1964-88HubertTeitelbaum 1970-JosephFrancis Weis, Jr. 1970-73BarronPatterson McCune 1970-85RalphFrancis Scalera 1971-76DanielJohn Snyder, Jr. 1973-80MauriceBlanchard Cohill, Jr. 1976-94PaulA. Simmons 1978-90AlanNeil Bloch 1979-97CarolLos Mansmann 1982-85GlennEverell Mencer 1982-94WilliamLloyd Standish 1987-2002D.Brooks Smith 1988-2002DonaldJohn Lee 1990-2000DonettaW. Ambrose 1993-GaryL. Lancaster 1993-2013SeanJ. McLaughlin 1994-2013JoyFlowers Conti 2002-DavidS. Cercone 2002-TerrenceF. McVerry 2002-13ArthurJ. Schwab 2002-ThomasMichael Hardiman 2003-07CathyBissoon 2011-
Officeholding Events(may be incomplete!)
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