Michael J. Davis
| MIchael James Davis | |
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| Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota | |
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Assumed office August 1, 2015 |
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| Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota | |
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In office 2008–2015 |
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| Preceded by | James M. Rosenbaum |
| Succeeded by | John R. Tunheim |
| Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota | |
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In office March 28, 1994 – August 1, 2015 |
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| Appointed by | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | Harry H. MacLaughlin |
| Succeeded by | Wilhelmina Wright |
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Michael James Davis 1947 (age 69–70) Cincinnati, Ohio |
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Macalester College B.A. University of Minnesota Law School J.D. |
Michael James Davis (born 1947) is a Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota.
Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Davis grew up in Aurora, Illinois. He graduated from East Aurora High School in 1965. In high school, he was a star basketball player, wrote for the school newspaper, and served on student council. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Macalester College in 1969 and a Juris Doctor from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1972.
Davis served as a law clerk for the Legal Rights Center from 1971 to 1973. He was an attorney in the Office of Legal Counsel for the Social Security Administration in Baltimore, Maryland in 1973, and a criminal defense lawyer for the Neighborhood Justice Center in 1974. He returned to the Legal Rights Center as an attorney from 1975 to 1978. He then served as an attorney and commissioner at the Minneapolis Civil Rights Commission from 1977 to 1981 and as an attorney for the Hennepin County, Minnesota, Public Defender's Office from 1978 to 1983. Davis served as a judge in Hennepin County Municipal Court from 1983 to 1984 and a judge of the Fourth Judicial District of Minnesota (Hennepin County) from 1984 to 1994.
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