D. Brooks Smith
| D. Brooks Smith | |
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| Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit | |
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Assumed office October 1, 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Theodore McKee |
| Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit | |
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Assumed office August 2, 2002 |
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| Appointed by | George W. Bush |
| Preceded by | Timothy K. Lewis |
| Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania | |
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In office October 1, 2001 – September 23, 2002 |
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| Preceded by | Donald Emil Ziegler |
| Succeeded by | Donetta W. Ambrose |
| Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania | |
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In office October 17, 1988 – September 23, 2002 |
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| Appointed by | Ronald Reagan |
| Preceded by | Carol Los Mansmann |
| Succeeded by | Kim R. Gibson |
| Personal details | |
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David Brookman Smith December 4, 1951 Altoona, Pennsylvania |
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Franklin & Marshall College B.A. Dickinson School of Law J.D. |
David Brookman Smith (born December 4, 1951), known professionally as D. Brooks Smith, is the Chief United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He was previously Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.
Smith was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania. After graduating from Dickinson School of Law, Smith began his legal career in Altoona, becoming managing partner of Jubelirer, Carothers, Krier, Halpern and Smith. From 1977 to 1979, Smith served as an Assistant District Attorney for Blair County, Pennsylvania. Smith then served as a special prosecutor, conducting a grand jury investigation from 1981 to 1983 into organized criminal activity in central Pennsylvania. From 1983 to 1984, Smith served as the Blair County District Attorney. In December 1984, Governor Dick Thornburgh appointed Smith to a judgeship on the Court of Common Pleas of Blair County. The next year, Smith received the nominations of both the Republican and Democratic Parties for a ten-year term as judge on the same court. In 1987, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Robert N. C. Nix Jr. appointed Smith Administrative Judge of the Blair County Courts, charging him with responsibility to address that court's chronic backlog.
In 1988, President Ronald Reagan, with the advice of Senators Arlen Specter and H. John Heinz III, appointed Smith to the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. He served as Chief Judge from 2001 until his elevation to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
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