Paul Simmons
Paul Allen Simmons (1921-2014) was a federal judge on the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.
Lee was nominated by President Jimmy Carter on January 26, 1978, to a seat vacated by Ralph Scalera. He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on April 6, 1978, and received commission the next day. Simmons was the first black judge for the Western District of Pennsylvania. He assumed senior status on June 1, 1990. Simmons passed away on October 9, 2014, of natural causes.[1][2] He was succeeded in this position by Timothy Lewis.
Education
Simmons earned his B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh in 1946 and his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1949.[1]
Professional career
- 1973-1978: Judge, Washington County Court of Common Pleas, Pennsylvania
- 1956-1973: Attorney in private practice, Monongahela, Pennsylvania
- 1952-1956: Professor, North Carolina College Law School, Durham, North Carolina
- 1949-1952: Professor, South Carolina State College Law School, Orangeburg, South Carolina[1]
Judicial career
Western District of Pennsylvania
Lee was nominated by President Jimmy Carter on January 26, 1978, to a seat vacated by Ralph Scalera; he was confirmed by the Senate on April 6, 1978, and received commission the next day. He assumed senior status on June 1, 1990.[1] He passed away on October 9, 2014.[2] Simmons was succeeded in this position by Timothy Lewis.
See also
- United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
- United States Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Federal Judicial Center, "Judge Paul Allen Simmons Biography," accessed October 15, 2014 Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; name "bio" defined multiple times with different content - ↑ 2.0 2.1 11 News WPXI, "First black federal judges in Western Pa. dies," October 14, 2014
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| Preceded by: Ralph Scalera |
Western District of Pennsylvania 1978–1990 Seat #1 |
Succeeded by: Timothy Lewis
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| 1977 |
Ballantine • Bownes • Boyle • Bua • Carr • Clark • Cowan • Daly • Filippine • Higginbotham • Hoeveler • Hug • Johnstone • Kane • Keith • Leval • Logan • MacLaughlin • McKay • Melton • Merritt • Murphy • Nickerson • Oberdorfer • Roszkowski • Roy • Rubin • Sifton • Tang • Vance • Veron | ||
| 1978 |
Arnold • Baker • Boyle • Burns • Campos • Claiborne • Collins • Cook • Devine • Diamond • Duplantier • Edenfield • Friedman • Gonzalez • Greene • Jenkins • Lowe • Mazzone • McMillian • O'Brien • Pfaelzer • Phillips • Pollak • Sand • Shapiro • Simmons • Smith • Sweet • Tanner • Wiseman • Ziegler | ||
| 1979 |
Ackerman • Alarcon • Anderson • Arceneaux • Arnold • Aspen • Beatty • Beer • Belew • Bertelsman • Bilby • N. Black • S. Black • Bloch • Bowen • Brett • Brooks • Brown • Buchmeyer • Bunton • Burciaga • Cabranes • Carr • Carrigan • Castagna • Cire • Clark • Cohn • Conaboy • Cordova • Crabb • Cudahy • Davis • DeAnda • Debevoise • Edwards • Eginton • Ellison • Enslen • O. Evans • T. Evans • Farris • Ferguson • Fletcher • Frye • Garcia • Garza • B. Gibson • H. Gibson • Gierbolini-Ortiz • Giles • Gilliam • Green • Hall • Hastings • Hatchett • Hatfield • Hatter • Hawkins • Henderson • Higby • Hillman • Houck • Howard • Hudspeth • Hungate • F. Johnson • S. Johnson • N. Jones • S. Jones • Karlton • Kazen • Kearse • Keeton • Kehoe • Kennedy • Kidd • King • Kravitch • Loughlin • Martin • McCurn • McDonald • McNaught • McNichols • Mikva • Mitchell • Moran • Murnaghan • Murphy • D. Nelson • D.W. Nelson • Newblatt • Newman • Overton • Paine • Panner • J. Parker • R. Parker • Penn • Perez-Gimenez • Perry • Politz • Poole • Porter • Pregerson • Price • Rambo • Ramirez • Reavley • Redden • E. Reed • S. Reed • Reinhardt • Renner • Robinson • Rothstein • Sachs • Saffels • Sanders • Sarokin • Schroeder • Schwartz • Seay • Senter • Seymour • Shannon • Shaw • Shoob • Skopil • Sloviter • Sofaer • Spellman • Sprouse • Staker • Tate • Taylor • Thompson • Tidwell • Unthank • Vietor • Vining • Wald • Ward • Weinshienk • West • Wicker • Williams • Winder • Woods • Wright • Zobel | ||
| 1980 |
Aguilar • Aldrich • Anderson • Boochever • Breyer • Britt • Cahill • Canby • Carroll • Cerezo • Clemon • S. Ervin • R. Erwin • Getzendanner • Gilmore • Ginsburg • Haltom • Hardy • Henderson • Hobbs • Holschuh • Horton • Howard • Johnson • Keep • Kelly • Kenyon • Kocoras • Marquez • Marshall • Michael • Nixon • Norris • Patel • Polozola • Propst • Quackenbush • Ramsey • Rice • Shadur • Spiegel • Tashima • Thompson • Vela • White • Williams | ||
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