Harvey Bartle
| Harvey Bartle | |
| Current Court Information: | |
| United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania | |
| Title: | Senior Judge |
| Position: | Seat #13 |
| Service: | |
| Appointed by: | George H.W. Bush |
| Active: | 09/16/1991 - 10/1/2011 |
| Chief: | 2006 - 2011 |
| Senior: | 10/1/2011 - Present |
| Preceded by: | Joseph McGlynn |
| Personal History | |
| Born: | 1941 |
| Home State: | Bryn Mawr, PA |
| Undergraduate: | Princeton, B.A., 1962 |
| Law School: | U. of Pennsylvania Law, LL.B., 1965 |
| Military service: | U.S. Army, Reserves 1966 - 1972 |
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Harvey Bartle III is a judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He joined the court in 1991 after being nominated by President George H.W. Bush and served as chief judge from 2006-2011. He assumed senior status on October 1, 2011.
He is one of twenty-two Article III judges on the court, and one of five judges on the court who were nominated to it by George H.W. Bush.
Early life and education
A native of Pennsylvania, Bartle graduated from Princeton University with his Bachelor's Degree in 1962 and later graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Law School with his Law Degree in 1965. Bartle also served in the U.S. Army Reserve as a Captain from 1966 to 1972.[1]
Professional career
Judge Bartle became a Law Clerk for federal judge John Morgan Davis in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania from 1965 to 1967. Bartle spent a majority of his legal career as a private practice licensed in the State of Pennsylvania from 1967 to 1979 and from 1981 to 1991. Bartle also served as a State insurance commissioner for the State of Pennsylvania from 1979 to 1980 and was appointed by Governor Dick Thornburgh for the State attorney general of the State of Pennsylvania from 1980 to 1981.
Judicial career
Eastern District of Pennsylvania
On the recommendation of Senators Arlen Specter and John Heinz III, Bartle was nominated by President George Bush on May 15, 1991 to a seat vacated by Joseph McGlynn, Jr. as McGlynn assumed senior status. Bartle was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on September 12, 1991 on a senate vote and received commission on September 16, 1991. Bartle served as the chief judge of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania from 2006 to 2011. He assumed senior status on October 1, 2011.
See also
External links
References
- ↑ Judge Bartle's Biography from the Federal Judicial Center.
| Federal judicial offices | ||
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| Preceded by: Joseph McGlynn |
Eastern District of Pennsylvania 1991–2011 Seat #13 |
Succeeded by: NA |
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| Active judges |
• Stewart Dalzell • Eduardo Robreno • Mary McLaughlin • Petrese Tucker • Legrome Davis • Cynthia Rufe • Tim Savage • James Gardner • Gene Pratter • Lawrence Stengel • Paul Diamond • Juan Sanchez • Darnell Jones • Mitchell Goldberg • Joel Slomsky | ||
| Senior judges |
Harvey Bartle • William Ditter • Norma Shapiro • Lowell Reed • Thomas O'Neill • Edmund Ludwig • Robert Kelly • Jan Dubois • Ronald Buckwalter • William Yohn • John Padova • Curtis Joyner • Anita Brody • Berle Schiller • Richard Surrick • Michael Baylson • Donald Van Artsdalen • | ||
| Magistrate judges | Thomas Reuter • Carol Wells • Jacob Hart • Linda Caracappa • Timothy Rice • David Strawbridge • Felipe Restrepo • Faith Angell • Henry Perkin • Elizabeth Hey • Lynne Sitarski • Arnold Rapoport • | ||
| Former Article III judges |
John Fullam • Louis Pollak • James Giles • Bruce Kauffman • Thomas Golden • William Lewis • 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 • Herbert Hutton • Daniel Huyett • Harry Kalodner • James McGirr Kelly • 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 • Thomas Egan • Herbert Fogel • Frederick Follmer • Abraham Freedman • James Ganey • Francis Van Dusen • Aloysius 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 • | ||
| Former Chief judges |
Harvey Bartle • John Fullam • James Giles • Curtis Joyner • William Huntington Kirkpatrick • John Whitaker Lord • Joseph Simon Lord • Alfred Luongo • Louis Bechtle • Edward Cahn • Thomas Clary • James Ganey • | ||
