Richard J. Leon
| Richard J. Leon | |
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| Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia | |
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Assumed office December 31, 2016 |
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| Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia | |
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In office February 19, 2002 – December 31, 2016 |
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| Appointed by | George W. Bush |
| Preceded by | Norma Holloway Johnson |
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| Born |
Richard J. Leon 1949 (age 67–68) Natick, Massachusetts |
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College of the Holy Cross (A.B.) Suffolk University Law School (J.D.) Harvard Law School (LL.M.) |
Richard J. Leon (born 1949) is a Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
Leon was born in South Natick, Massachusetts in 1949. He received his Artium Baccalaureus degree from the College of the Holy Cross (where he was a classmate of future Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas) in 1971. He received his Juris Doctor from Suffolk University Law School in 1974.
Richard played varsity lacrosse at Holy Cross, where he was the starting crease attackman.
Leon served as a law clerk to the justices of the Massachusetts Superior Court from 1974 to 1975 and to Thomas F. Kelleher of the Rhode Island Supreme Court from 1975 to 1976. Leon was an attorney for the Immigration and Naturalization Service of the United States Department of Justice from 1976 to 1977 and a Special Assistant United States Attorney in the office of the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York working in the Civil Division from 1977 to 1978.
Leon received his Master of Laws from Harvard Law School in 1981.
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