James McGirr Kelly
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| James McGirr Kelly | |
| Current Court Information: | |
| United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania | |
| Title: | Former Judge |
| Position: | Seat #14T |
| Service: | |
| Appointed by: | Ronald Reagan |
| Active: | 8/6/1983 - 3/30/1996 |
| Senior: | 3/31/1996 - 3/5/2005 |
| Preceded by: | Emanuel Mac Troutman |
| Succeeded by: | Bruce Kauffman |
| Personal History | |
| Born: | 1928 |
| Bachelors: | University of Pennsylvania (1951) |
| Law School: | Temple University School of Law (1957) |
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This page is about the former federal judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. For other judges with this name, see James Kelly.
James McGirr Kelly (1928-2005) was a federal judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Kelly was nominated by President Ronald Reagan on June 21, 1983, to a seat vacated by Emanuel Mac Troutman; he was confirmed by the Senate on August 4, 1983, and received commission two days later. He assumed senior status on March 31, 1996,[1] and served until his death on March 5, 2005. Kelly was succeeded in this position by Bruce Kauffman.
Early life and education
- University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business, B.S., 1951
- Temple University School of Law, J.D., 1957
Professional career
- U.S. Navy, 1951-1953
- Law clerk, Hon. Edward J. Griffiths, Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia, PA, 1957-1958
- Assistant district Attorney, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1958-1960
- Assistant U.S. attorney, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1960-1962
- Private practice, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1962-1983
- Master, Jury Selection Board, Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, Pennsylvania, 1963-1964
- Special assistant commonwealth attorney general, Pennsylvania, 1964-1965
- Adjunct professor of business law, Drexel University, 1965-1989
- Member, Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, 1967-1977
- Vice president of regulatory practices, American Water Works Company, 1977-1983
Judicial career
Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Kelly was nominated by President Ronald Reagan on June 21, 1983, to a seat vacated by Emanuel Mac Troutman;[1] he was confirmed by the Senate on August 4, 1983, and received commission two days later. He assumed senior status on March 31, 1996, and served until his death on March 5, 2005. Kelly was succeeded in this position by Bruce Kauffman.
External links
- Biography from the Federal Judicial Center.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Biography from the Federal Judicial Center
| Federal judicial offices | ||
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| Preceded by: Emanuel Mac Troutman | Eastern District of Pennsylvania 1983–1996 Seat #14T | Succeeded by: Bruce Kauffman |
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| 1981 |
Bartlett • Beam • Becker • Bork • Cacheris • Cardamone • Chapman • Coughenour • Cox • Crow • Cyr • Doumar • Eschbach • Forrester • Garwood • Gibson • Glasser • Hall • Hamilton • Head • Jones • Kiser • Krenzler • Lee • Magnuson • McLaughlin • Miner • Moore • Nowlin • O'Connor • Pierce • Posner • Potter • Russell • Ryan • Shabaz • Sprizzo • Stevens • Waters • Wilhoit • Wilkins • Winter | ||
| 1982 |
Acker • Acosta • Altimari • Bell • Bissell • Black • Bullock • Caldwell • Coffey • Contie • Coyle • Dowd • Fagg • Fong • Fox • Gadbois • Gibson • Ginsburg • Hart • Higginbotham • Hogan • Irving • Jackson • Jolly • Kanne • Kovachevich • Krupansky • Lynch • Mansmann • McNamara • Mencer • Mentz • Mihm • Moody • Nordberg • Paul • Pieras • Plunkett • Porfilio • Potter • Pratt • Rafeedie • Restani • Roberts • Scalia • Selya • Telesca • Wellford | ||
| 1983 |
Baldock • Barbour • Barry • Bowman • Carman • Carter • Curran • Davis • Dorsey • Feldman • Fish • Flaum • Gibbons • Hallanan • Harris • Hinojosa • Hull • Hupp • Katz • Keenan • Kelly • Kram • Laffitte • Limbaugh, Sr. • Limbaugh, Sr. • Milburn • Nesbitt • Nevas • O'Neill • Rymer • Sharp • Starr • Vinson • Vukasin • Wexler • Woods | ||
| 1984 |
Barker • Beezer • Biggers • Billings • Bissell • Boyle • Brewster • Browning • DiCarlo • Duhe • Garcia • George • Hall • Hargrove • Higgins • Hill • Holland • Ideman • Jarvis • Keller • Leavy • Lee • Legge • Leisure • Little • Livaudais • Longobardi • McKibben • Milburn • Newman • Norgle • Prado • Rea • Rosenblatt • Rovner • Scirica • Smith, Jr. • Sneeden • Stotler • Suhrheinrich • Torruella • Wiggins • Wilkinson | ||
| 1985 |
Alley • Altimari • Anderson • Aquilino • Archer • Arnold • Baldock • Batchelder • Battey • Broomfield • Brown • Brown • Brunetti • Buckley • Cobb • Conmy • Cowen • Davidson • Dimmick • Duff • Easterbrook • Edgar • Farnan • Fernandez • Fitzpatrick • Fuste • Greene • Gunn • Guy • Hall • Hilton • Holderman • Hughes • Johnson • Jones • Korman • Kozinski • La Plata • Leinenweber • Letts • Lovell • Ludwig • Maloney • Mansmann • Marcus • McDonald • Meredith • Miller • Mills • Miner • Motz • Nelson • Noonan • Porfilio • Revercomb • Rhoades • Ripple • Rodriguez • Rosenbaum • Roth • Ryan • Sam • Scott • Sentelle • Silberman • Sporkin • Stanton • Stapleton • Strand • Strom • Tacha • Tevrizian • Thompson • Todd • Tsoucalas • Walker • Walter • Weber • Williams • Wilson • Wingate • Wolf • Wollman • Young • Zloch | ||
| 1986 |
Anderson • Boggs • Bryan • Cedarbaum • Cholakis • Conway • Davies • Dearie • Dubina • Duggan • Edmondson • Fawsett • Fitzwater • Gex • Graham • Hackett • Hansen • Henderson • Hittner • Howard • Jensen • Kay • Kleinfeld • Kosik • Lagueux • Lechner • Magill • Mahoney • Manion • McAvoy • McQuade • Norris • O'Scannlain • Rehnquist • Ryskamp • Scalia • Selya • Simpson • Smalkin • Spencer • Stiehl • Wilkins • Williams • Woodlock • Zatkoff | ||
| 1987 |
Alesia • Beam • Bell • Conboy • Cowen • Cummings • Daronco • Doty • Dwyer • Ebel • Ellis • Gadola • Gawthrop • Greenberg • Harrington • Howard • Hoyt • Hutchinson • Kanne • Kelly • Larimer • Leavy • Lew • Marsh • Mayer • McKinney • Michel • Mukasey • Musgrave • Niemeyer • Parker • Phillips • Politan • Pro • Raggi • Reasoner • Reed • Scirica • Sentelle • Smith • Smith • Stadtmueller • Standish • Tinder • Torres • Trott • Turner • Van Antwerpen • Voorhees • Webb • Whipple • Wolin • Wolle • Wood • Zagel | ||
| 1988 |
Arcara • Babcock • Brorby • Butler • Cambridge • Camp • Conlon • Cox • Dubois • Duhe • Ezra • Forester • Friedman • Garza • Hutton • Jordan • Kennedy • Lake • Lamberth • Lifland • Lozano • Marovich • Nygaard • Patterson • Schell • Smith • Smith • Tilley • Waldman • Zilly | ||
