Nora Barry Fischer
| Nora Barry Fischer | |
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| Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania | |
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Assumed office April 2, 2007 |
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| Appointed by | George W. Bush |
| Preceded by | Robert J. Cindrich |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Nora Barry June 15, 1951 Homestead, Pennsylvania |
| Education |
Saint Mary's College B.A. Notre Dame Law School J.D. |
Nora Barry Fischer (born June 15, 1951) is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.
Fischer was born Nora Barry in Homestead, Pennsylvania, to Michael T. Barry and Olga Stipetich Barry, both first generation United States citizens. She is one of eight siblings, all of whom graduated from college. Fischer attended Saint Mary's College, where she studied history and humanistic studies. As part of her undergraduate education she attended L’Universite Catholique (see Catholic University of the West) located in Angers, France for one academic year. She graduated with her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1973 and later from Notre Dame Law School with a Juris Doctor in 1976.
Following law school graduation, she worked as a legal editor at Callaghan & Company, in part working on revisions to McQuillin on Municipal Corporations and to Fletchers Cyclopedia on Corporations. Fischer returned to Pittsburgh in 1977 where she became the first female associate at Meyer Darragh Buckler Bebenek & Eck, an insurance defense litigation firm. In 1980, Fischer was named the first female junior partner at Meyer Darragh Buckler Bebenek & Eck and in 1982, its first female senior partner.
In 1992, she joined the firm of Pietragallo Bosick & Gordon as an equity partner. She served the firm as administrative partner and as a practice group leader. Her practice at both Meyer Darragh and PB&G was litigation based, as she handled product liability, toxic tort, insurance coverage and bad faith as well as municipal liability and civil rights litigation.
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