Gershwin A. Drain
| Gershwin Allen Drain | |
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| Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan | |
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Assumed office August 8, 2012 |
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| Appointed by | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Bernard A. Friedman |
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| Born |
Gershwin Allen Drain 1949 (age 67–68) Detroit, Michigan |
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Western Michigan University B.S. University of Michigan Law School J.D. University of Nevada-Reno M.J.S. |
Gershwin Allen Drain (born 1949) is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.
Drain received his Bachelor of Science in 1970 from Western Michigan University, where he played running back for the Western Michigan Broncos. He received his Juris Doctor in 1972 from the University of Michigan Law School, and his Master of Judicial Studies degree from the University of Nevada-Reno.
Drain served as a law clerk for the Third Circuit Court of Michigan (1972–73), and as counsel for the Detroit Department of Transportation from 1973 to 1974. He then served as an attorney in the Federal Defender Office for the Eastern District of Michigan for the next 12 years, representing defendants charged with criminal felonies in federal court and trying approximately 144 cases.
He served as a state judge from 1986 to 2012. On August 2, 2012, after he was nominated by President Obama, the United States Senate voted to confirm Drain as a federal district court judge.
Born in Detroit, Gershwin A. Drain attended Detroit St. Gregory High School, a Catholic high school, where he was president of his senior class. He received his Bachelor of Science in 1970 from Western Michigan University, which he attended on a football scholarship and for which he played football as a running back for the Western Michigan Broncos from 1968–69.
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