Donetta Ambrose
| Donetta Ambrose | |
| Current Court Information: | |
| United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania | |
| Title: | Senior Judge |
| Position: | Seat #6 |
| Station: | Pittsburgh, PA |
| Service: | |
| Appointed by: | Bill Clinton |
| Active: | 11/24/1993 - 11/04/2010 |
| Chief: | 2002 - 2009 |
| Senior: | 11/05/2010 - Present |
| Preceded by: | Gerald Weber |
| Succeeded by: | Mark Raymond Hornak |
| Past post: | Westmoreland County Court of Common Pleas, Judge |
| Past term: | 1982 - 1993 |
| Personal History | |
| Born: | 1945 |
| Home State: | New Kensington, PA |
| Bachelors: | Duquesne U., B.A., 1967 |
| Law School: | Duquesne U. Law, J.D., 1970 |
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Donetta Ambrose is an Article III federal judge for the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. She joined the court in 1993 after being nominated by President Bill Clinton. Ambrose is the Chief Judge of the Court serving as the court's lead judicial administrative officer in conjunction with the Clerk of Court in the court's day to day operations.
Early life and education
A native of Pennsylvania, Ambrose graduated from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh with her Bachelor's Degree in 1967 and later graduated with his Juris Doctorate Degree in 1970.
Professional career
Ambrose began her law career as a Law clerk for State Appeals Judge Louis Manderino in the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court from 1970 to 1971. In 1971, Ambrose joined the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office as a Assistant attorney general and served in that role until 1974. Ambrose served seven years as a private practice attorney licensed in the State of Pennsylvania from 1974 to 1981. Also, Ambrose served as a part-time Assistant District Attorney for the Westmoreland County District Attorney's Office from 1977 till 1981. In 1982, Ambrose started her judicial career as a Judge in the Court of Common Pleas of Westmoreland County from 1982 to 1993.
Judicial career
Western District of Pennsylvania
On the recommendation of Pennsylvania U.S. Senator Harris Wofford, Ambrose was nominated by President Bill Clinton on October 25, 1993 to a seat vacated by Gerald Weber as Weber died while in judicial service in 1989[1]. Ambrose was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on November 20, 1993 on a senate vote and received commission on November 24, 1993. Ambrose served as the chief judge of the court from 2002 to 2010 before assuming senior status on January 1, 2011.[2] Ambrose was succeeded in this position by Mark Raymond Hornak.
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| Federal judicial offices | ||
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| Preceded by: Gerald Weber |
Western District of Pennsylvania 1993–2010 Seat #6 |
Succeeded by: Mark Raymond Hornak |
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| 1993 |
Adams • Ambrose • Barnes • Brinkema • Bucklew • Chasanow • Coffman • Daughtrey • Ferguson • Ginsburg • Hagen • Jackson • Lancaster • Leval • Lindsay • Messitte • Michael • Piersol • Saris • Schwartz • Seybert • Shanahan • Shaw • Stearns • Trager • Vazquez • Wilken • Wilson | ||
| 1994 |
Baer • Barkett • Batts • Beaty • Benavides • Bennett • Berrigan • Biery • Block • Borman • Breyer • Briones • Bryson • Bucklo • Burgess • Burrage • Cabranes • Calabresi • Carr • Casellas • Castillo • Chatigny • Chin • Cindrich • Coar • Collins • Cooper • Cote • Currie • Davis • Dominguez • Downes • Duval • Friedman • Furgeson • Garcia • Gertner • Gettleman • Gillmor • Gilmore • Gleeson • Haggerty • Hamilton • Hannah • Hawkins • Henry • Holmes • Hood • Hull • Hurley • Jack • Jones • Jones • Kaplan • Katz • Kern • Kessler • Koeltl • Lisi • Manning • McKee • McLaughlin • Melancon • Miles-LaGrange • Moore • Motz • Murphy • O'Malley • O'Meara • Oliver • Paez • B. Parker • F. Parker • R. Parker • Perry • Ponsor • Pooler • Porteous • Rendell • Riley • Robertson • Rogers • Ross • Russell • Sands • Sarokin • Scheindlin • Silver • Squatrito • Stewart • Sullivan • Tatel • Thompson • Timlin • Urbina • Vanaskie • Vance • Walls • Wells • Williams | ||
| 1995 |
Arterton • Atlas • Black • Blake • Briscoe • Tena Campbell • Todd Campbell • Chesney • Cole • Collier • Daniel • Davis • Dennis • Dlott • Donald • Duffy • Economus • Evans • Fallon • Folsom • Gaughan • Goodwin • Heartfield • Hunt • Illston • Jones • King • Kornmann • Lawson • Lenard • Lucero • Lynch • McKinley • Moody • Moore • Moskowitz • Murphy • Murtha • Nugent • O'Toole • Orlofsky • Pogue • Sessions • C. Smith • O. Smith • Stein • Thornburg • Tunheim • Wallach • Wardlaw • Webber • Whaley • Winmill • Wood | ||
| 1996 |
Broadwater • Clevert • Fenner • Gershon • Gottschall • Greenaway • Hinkle • Jones • Kahn • Laughrey • Lemmon • Marten • Miller • Molloy • Montgomery • Pregerson • Rakoff • Sargus • Tashima • Thomas • Zapata | ||
| 1997 |
Adelman • Bataillon • Breyer • Caputo • Casey • Chambers • Clay • Damrell • Droney • Friedman • Gajarsa • Garland • Gilman • Gold • Gwin • Hall • Hayden • Hull • Ishii • Jenkins • Kauffman • Kennedy • Kimball • Kollar-Kotelly • Lazzara • Marbley • Marcus • Middlebrooks • Miller • Moon • Pratt • Rendell • Sippel • Siragusa • Snyder • Thrash | ||
| 1998 |
Aiken • Barbier • Barzilay • Berman • Buttram • Carter • Collins • Dawson • Dimitrouleas • Fletcher • Fogel • Frank • Graber • Hellerstein • Herndon • James • Johnson • Kane • Kelly • G. King • R. King • Lasnik • Lee • Lemelle • Lindsay • Lipez • Manella • Matz • McCuskey • McKeown • McMahon • Mickle • Mollway • Mordue • Moreno • Morrow • Munley • Murphy • Pallmeyer • Pauley • Polster • Pooler • Rawlinson • Ridgway • R. Roberts • V. Roberts • Sack • Scott • Seitz • Seymour • Shea • Silverman • Sleet • Sotomayor • Steeh • Story • Straub • Tagle • Tarnow • Trauger • Traxler • Tyson • Wardlaw • Whelan • Young | ||
| 1999 |
Alsup • Barry • Brown • Buchwald • Cooper • Eaton • Ellison • Feess • Fisher • Gould • Guzman • Haynes • Hibbler • Hochberg • Hurd • Huvelle • Jordan • Katzmann • Kennelly • Linn • Lorenz • Lynn • Marrero • Murguia • Pannell • Pechman • Pepper • Phillips • Schreier • Stewart • Underhill • Ward • Williams • Wilson | ||
| 2000 |
Ambro • Antoon • Battani • Berzon • Bolton • Brady • Bye • Cavanaugh • Daniels • Darrah • Dawson • Dyk • Fuentes • Garaufis • Garcia-Gregory • Gregory • Hamilton • Huck • Hunt • Lawson • Lefkow • Lynch • Martin • McLaughlin • Moody • Murguia • Paez • Pisano • Presnell • Rawlinson • Reagan • Schiller • Singal • Steele • Surrick • Swain • Tallman • Teilborg • Tucker • Whittemore | ||
