Timothy Black
| Timothy Seymour Black | |
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| Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio | |
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Assumed office May 13, 2010 |
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| Appointed by | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Sandra Beckwith |
| Magistrate Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio | |
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In office 2004 – May 13, 2010 |
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| Born |
Timothy Seymour Black 1953 (age 63–64) Brookline, Massachusetts |
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Harvard College A.B. Salmon P. Chase College of Law J.D. |
Timothy Seymour Black (born 1953) is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio.
Black earned an Artium Baccalaureus from Harvard College in 1975 and then earned a Juris Doctor in 1983 from the Salmon P. Chase College of Law at Northern Kentucky University.
Black practiced law as a civil litigator for the Cincinnati law firm of Graydon Head & Ritchey from 1983 until 1993. In 1991, Black unsuccessfully ran in a judicial election for the Hamilton County Municipal Court as a Republican. In 1993, he ran as a Democrat and defeated sitting judge David Albanese. He served as a Hamilton County Municipal Court judge from 1994-2004. He ran unsuccessfully for a seat on the Ohio Supreme Court in 2000 and in 2002.
In 2004, the Judges of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio selected Black as a United States Magistrate Judge.
In July 2009, a bipartisan commission in Ohio selected Black from a list of three finalists and recommended him to President Barack Obama to fill a vacancy on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. On December 24, 2009, Obama formally nominated Black to fill the district court vacancy, which was created by Judge Sandra Beckwith taking senior status on January 1, 2009. On May 11, 2010, the United States Senate confirmed Black in a unanimous voice vote. He received his commission on May 13, 2010.
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