Michael A. Ponsor
| Michael Adrian Ponsor | |
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| Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts | |
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Assumed office August 15, 2011 |
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| Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts | |
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In office February 14, 1994 – August 15, 2011 |
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| Appointed by | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | Frank Harlan Freedman |
| Succeeded by | Mark G. Mastroianni |
| Magistrate Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts | |
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In office 1984–1994 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
Michael Adrian Ponsor 1946 (age 71–72) Chicago, Illinois |
| Education |
Harvard University (B.A.) Yale Law School (J.D.) University of Oxford (M.A.) |
Michael Adrian Ponsor (born 1946) is a Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. He serves in the court's western region, in the city of Springfield.
Ponsor graduated from Harvard College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1969, and received a Rhodes Scholarship, studying at Pembroke College, Oxford, from which he obtained a Master of Arts degree in 1971. He graduated from Yale Law School with a Juris Doctor in 1975.
Ponsor served as a law clerk to Judge Joseph L. Tauro of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts from 1975 to 1976. He was in private practice in Boston, Massachusetts from 1976 to 1978 and in Amherst, Massachusetts from 1978 to 1983. He was an adjunct professor at Yale Law School from 1989 to 1991 and Western New England University School of Law since 1988. He served as a United States Magistrate Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts from 1984 to 1994.
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