Thomas Hardiman
| Thomas Michael Hardiman | |
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| Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit | |
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Assumed office April 2, 2007 |
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| Appointed by | George W. Bush |
| Preceded by | Richard Lowell Nygaard |
| Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania | |
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In office October 27, 2003 – April 5, 2007 |
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| Appointed by | George W. Bush |
| Preceded by | William Lloyd Standish |
| Succeeded by | Cathy Bissoon |
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Thomas Michael Hardiman July 8, 1965 Winchester, Massachusetts |
| Political party | Republican |
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University of Notre Dame B.A. Georgetown University Law Center J.D. |
Thomas Michael Hardiman (born July 8, 1965) is a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He was previously a United States District Judge. He maintains chambers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
In 2017, Hardiman was a finalist to succeed Antonin Scalia as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, alongside eventual nominee Neil M. Gorsuch.
Hardiman was born in 1965 in Winchester, Massachusetts, and was raised in Waltham. His father, Robert, owned and operated a taxicab and school transportation business and his mother, Judith, was a homemaker and bookkeeper for the family business.
As a teenager, Hardiman began working part-time as a taxi driver, which he continued to do throughout high school and college. In 1983, he graduated from Waltham High School.
He was the first person in his family to graduate from college, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Notre Dame on an academic scholarship and graduating with honors in 1987. He then studied law at Georgetown University Law Center, where he served as an editor of the Georgetown Law Journal and a member of the moot court team, while working at law firms during the summers and academic terms to help pay his tuition. He received a Juris Doctor with honors in 1990.
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