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David F. Levi

Judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California · 1990

David F. Levi , Judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California. David Frank Levi (born August 29, 1951) is an American jurist and former dean of the Duke University School of Law. From 1990 to 2007, he was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California, serving as Chief Judge from 2003 to 2007. He had been mentioned as a possible nominee to the Supreme Court.

Education

  • Harvard UniversityA.B., 1972
  • Harvard UniversityM.A., 1973
  • Stanford Law SchoolJ.D., 1980

Career

Law clerk, Hon. Ben C. Duniway, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 1980-1981; Law clerk, Hon. Lewis F. Powell, Supreme Court of the United States, 1981-1982; Assistant U.S. attorney, Eastern District of California, 1983-1986; U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of California, 1986-1990; Dean, Duke University School of Law, 2007-2018

Biography

David Frank Levi (born August 29, 1951) is an American jurist and former dean of the Duke University School of Law. From 1990 to 2007, he was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California, serving as Chief Judge from 2003 to 2007. He had been mentioned as a possible nominee to the Supreme Court.

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