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Clifford Scott Green

Judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania · 1971

Clifford Scott Green , Judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Clifford Scott Green (April 2, 1923 – May 31, 2007) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Green was the eighteenth African-American Article III judge appointed in the United States, and the second African-American judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Education

  • Temple UniversityB.S., 1948
  • Temple University School of Law (now James E. Beasley School of Law)J.D., 1951

Career

U.S. Air Force sergeant, 1943-1946; Instructor, William Penn Business Institute, 1951-1952; Private practice, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1952-1964; Special deputy attorney general, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 1954-1955; Lecturer in law, Temple University, 1968-1971; Judge, Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County [Pennsylvania], 1964-1972

Biography

Clifford Scott Green (April 2, 1923 – May 31, 2007) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Green was the eighteenth African-American Article III judge appointed in the United States, and the second African-American judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

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