J. Harvie Wilkinson III
| Harvie Wilkinson | |
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Wilkinson (left) and Edward Becker
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| Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit | |
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Assumed office August 13, 1984 |
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| Appointed by | Ronald Reagan |
| Preceded by | John Butzner |
| Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit | |
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In office February 14, 1996 – February 15, 2003 |
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| Preceded by | Samuel Ervin |
| Succeeded by | William Wilkins |
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September 29, 1944 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Education |
Yale University (BA) University of Virginia (JD) |
James Harvie Wilkinson III (born September 29, 1944) is a federal judge serving on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. His name has been raised at several junctures in the past as a possible nominee to the United States Supreme Court.
Wilkinson was born in New York, New York to J. Harvie Wilkinson Jr. and his wife. He was raised in Richmond, Virginia, where he attended St. Christopher's School during the state's Massive Resistance crisis concerning desegregation of the public schools. His father (CEO of State Planters Bank, later part of Crestar Bank) joined with Norfolk and Western Railroad CEO Stuart Saunders and Richmond School Board President (and later Supreme Court Justice) Lewis F. Powell and others to support Governor J. Lindsay Almond, Jr. when he decided to break with the Byrd Organization and adhere to the decisions of the Virginia Supreme Court and a three judge federal panel on January 19, 1959, which declared certain new laws designed to maintain segregation unconstitutional.
Wilkinson attended the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey, then Yale University, where he was a member of St. Anthony Hall, chairman of the Conservative Party of the Yale Political Union, and later the Political Union's president. He graduated with honors from Yale in 1967, then published his first book, Harry Byrd and The Changing Face of Virginia Politics, 1945–1966 (1968) Wilkinson served in the U.S. Army from 1968 to 1969.
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