David F. Levi
| David F. Levi | |
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| 14th Dean of Duke Law School | |
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Assumed office July 1, 2007 |
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| Preceded by | Katharine T. Bartlett |
| Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California | |
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In office October 1, 1990 – June 30, 2007 |
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| Nominated by | George H. W. Bush |
| Preceded by | Edward Dean Price |
| Succeeded by | John A. Mendez |
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United States Attorney for the Eastern District of California |
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In office 1986–1990 |
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| Nominated by | Ronald Reagan |
| Preceded by | Donald B. Ayer |
| Succeeded by | George L. O'Connell |
| Personal details | |
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August 29, 1951 Chicago, Illinois |
| Nationality | United States |
| Spouse(s) | Nancy Ranney |
| Alma mater |
Harvard University (A.B.) Stanford Law School (J.D.) |
David F. Levi (born August 29, 1951) is a former U.S. jurist and current Dean of the Duke University School of Law. From 1990–2007, he was a Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California, serving as Chief Judge since 2003. At the time Levi left the bench, he was widely considered to be one of the top federal judges in the nation. He has been mentioned as a possible nominee to the Supreme Court.
Levi was born in Chicago, Illinois. His father was Edward H. Levi, a former president of the University of Chicago and United States Attorney General under President Gerald R. Ford. He received an undergraduate degree from Harvard College, in History and Literature (magna cum laude) in 1972 and then entered the graduate program in history at Harvard where he eventually specialized in English legal history. He received his law degree in 1980 from the Stanford Law School, where he graduated Order of the Coif and was President of the Stanford Law Review.
From 1980 to 1981 he served as clerk for Judge Ben C. Duniway of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and from 1981 to 1982 as clerk for Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell. In 1983, he joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of California as a prosecutor. In 1986 he was appointed by President Ronald Reagan as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of California. Levi directed a major corruption investigation involving several California legislators and was also a member of the Attorney General's Advisory Committee and Chair of the Public Corruption Committee of United States Attorneys. In 1990 he was appointed by President George H. W. Bush as a judge to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California. He served as Chief Judge of the Eastern District of California from May 2003 – 2007. He resigned from the bench on June 30, 2007.
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