Jeffrey L. Schmehl

Jeffrey Schmehl

Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Incumbent
Assumed office June 25, 2013
Appointed by	Barack Obama
Preceded by	Thomas Golden
Personal details
Born	November 1955 (age 61) Reading, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Alma mater	Dickinson College University of Toledo

Jeffrey L. Schmehl (born November 1955) is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Biography

Schmehl received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1977 from Dickinson College. He received his Juris Doctorate in 1980 from the University of Toledo College of Law. He served as an Assistant Public Defender in Berks County, Pennsylvania, from 1980 to 1981. From 1981 to 1986, he served as an Assistant District Attorney in Berks County and also worked as a sole practitioner in West Reading. He joined the law firm of Rhoda, Stoudt & Bradley in 1986, becoming partner in 1988 and serving with that firm until 1997. During much of that time period he served as Berks County Solicitor. He became a judge of the Berks County Court of Common Pleas and served as President Judge of that court from 2008 to 2013.^[1]

Federal judicial service

On November 27, 2012, President Obama nominated Schmehl to serve as a United States District Judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, to the seat vacated by Judge Thomas M. Golden, who died on July 31, 2010.^[1] On January 2, 2013, his nomination was returned to the President, due to the sine die adjournment of the Senate.

On January 3, 2013, he was renominated to the same office. He received a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on February 13, 2013, and was reported to the floor by voice vote on March 7, 2013. His nomination was approved by the Senate on June 13, 2013 by a 100-0 vote.^[2] He received his commission on June 25, 2013.

References

External links

Jeffrey L. Schmehl at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center.

Legal offices
Preceded by Thomas Golden	Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania 2013–present	Incumbent

Current active district judges of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals

Delaware	Stark Robinson Sleet Andrews

New Jersey	Simandle Linares Kugler Wolfson Bumb Hillman Sheridan Wigenton Cecchi Salas McNulty Shipp Arleo Vazquez Martinotti 2 seats vacant

E. Pennsylvania	Tucker Davis Rufe Savage Gardner Pratter Stengel Diamond Sanchez Slomsky Jones Goldberg Quiñones Schmehl McHugh Smith Beetlestone Kearney Pappert Leeson 2 seats vacant

M. Pennsylvania	Conner Kane Jones Mariani Mannion Brann

W. Pennsylvania	Conti Cercone Schwab Fischer Bissoon Hornak 4 seats vacant

Virgin Islands	Lewis Gomez

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