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Sam Clyde Pointer Jr.

Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama · 1970

Sam Clyde Pointer Jr., Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama.

Education

  • Vanderbilt UniversityA.B., 1955
  • University of Alabama School of LawJ.D., 1957
  • New York University School of LawLL.M., 1958

Career

U.S. Army, 1957; U.S. Army Reserve, 1957-1970; Private practice, Birmingham, Alabama, 1958-1970; Member, U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, 1980-1987; Member, Judicial Conference of the United States, 1987-1990

Biography

Sam Clyde Pointer Jr. (November 15, 1934 – March 15, 2008) was an attorney in Birmingham, Alabama, and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama from 1970 to 2000. He was a noted figure in complex multidistrict class-action litigation.

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