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Stephanos Bibas

Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 2017

Stephanos Bibas, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. The Senate voted 53–43 on the nomination on Nov 2, 2017 (Nomination Confirmed).

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  • United States Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit
    115th Congress · Nomination Confirmed
    53–43 · Nov 2, 2017

Education

  • Columbia UniversityB.A., 1989
  • University of Oxford, University CollegeB.A., 1991
  • Yale Law SchoolJ.D., 1994
  • Temple Bar Scholar, American Inns of Court1998

Career

Law clerk, Hon. Patrick E. Higginbotham, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, 1994-1995; Private practice, Washington, D.C., 1995-1997; Law clerk, Hon. Anthony M. Kennedy, Supreme Court of the United States, 1997-1998; Assistant U.S. attorney, Southern District of New York, 1998-2000; Research fellow, Yale Law School, 2000-2001; Associate professor, University of Iowa College of Law, 2001-2006; Visiting associate professor, University of Chicago Law School, 2006; University of Pennsylvania Law School, 2005, 2006-2017; visiting associate professor, 2005; professor of law, 2006-2017; professor of criminology, 2009-2017; director, Supreme Court clinic, 2009-2017; founding affiliated faculty member, Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice, 2013-2017

Biography

Stephanos Bibas (born June 18, 1969) is an American lawyer and jurist serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He was appointed to the bench in 2017 by President Donald Trump. Before his appointment, he was a professor of law and criminology at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he was the director of its Supreme Court clinic.

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