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Richard Allen Posner
Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1981
Richard Allen Posner , Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Richard Allen Posner (; born January 11, 1939) is an American legal scholar and retired United States circuit judge who served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit from 1981 to 2017. Posner was appointed by President Ronald Reagan, and he served as the chief judge of the Seventh Circuit from 1993 to 2000.
Education
- Yale CollegeA.B., 1959
- Harvard Law SchoolLL.B., 1962
Career
Law clerk, Hon. William J. Brennan, Jr., Supreme Court of the United States, 1962-1963; Legal assistant to the commissioner, Federal Trade Commission, 1963-1965; Assistant to the solicitor general, U.S. Department of Justice, 1965-1967; General counsel, President's Task Force on Communications, 1967-1968; Associate professor, Stanford Law School, 1968-1969; Faculty, University of Chicago Law School, 1969-; Member, Judicial Conference of the United States, 1994-2000
Biography
Richard Allen Posner (; born January 11, 1939) is an American legal scholar and retired United States circuit judge who served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit from 1981 to 2017. Posner was appointed by President Ronald Reagan, and he served as the chief judge of the Seventh Circuit from 1993 to 2000.
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