Stephen Reinhardt
| Stephen Reinhardt | |
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| Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit | |
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Assumed office September 11, 1980 |
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| Nominated by | Jimmy Carter |
| Preceded by | Seat established |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
March 27, 1931 New York, New York |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Education |
Pomona College (BA) Yale University (LLB) |
Stephen Roy Reinhardt (born March 27, 1931) is a circuit judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, with chambers in Los Angeles, California. He is the only remaining federal appeals court judge in active service to have been appointed by President Jimmy Carter.
Born to a Jewish family, Reinhardt graduated from University High School in Los Angeles. He enrolled in Pomona College and graduated three years later with a B.A. in Government in 1951. In 1954, he received an LL.B. from Yale Law School.
After law school, Reinhardt worked at the legal counsel's office for the United States Air Force as a lieutenant in Washington, D.C.. Two years later, he clerked for federal district judge Luther Youngdahl, a former governor of Minnesota, in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. He then entered private practice, working for the law firm O'Melveny & Myers from 1958 to 1959 practicing entertainment law. After two years at O'Melveny, he began working at a small firm in Los Angeles that became Fogel, Julber, Reinhardt, Rothschild & Feldman, specializing in labor law.
Reinhardt served as a member of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, California Advisory Committee from 1962 to 1974 and was its vice chairman from 1969 to 1974. He also served as member of the Democratic National Committee and as an unpaid advisor to former Los Angeles mayor Tom Bradley and California governor Jerry Brown. In 1975 he was appointed to the Los Angeles Police Commission, which he chaired from 1978 until his judicial confirmation in 1980.
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