Chief Judge, United States District Court for the District of Delaware
Colm F. Connolly has served as a United States District Judge since August 3, 2018. He was a partner at Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP from 2009 until he took the bench in 2018. He served as the United States Attorney for the District of Delaware from 2001 to 2009 and was an Assistant United States Attorney from 1993 to 1999. He was a partner with the firm of Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell from 1999 to 2001.
Judge Connolly was a law clerk for the Honorable Walter K. Stapleton of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit from 1991 to 1992. He hold degrees from the Duke University School of Law, the London School of Economics, and the University of Notre Dame.
Judge Connolly is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and a member of the American Law Institute.
United States District Judge, Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Judge Wolson was nominated to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in May 2018 and was confirmed in May 2019. Judge Wolson earned his J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School, B.A., magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania. After graduating from law school, he served as a law clerk for Hon. Jan E. DuBois of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He then maintained a complex commercial litigation practice, first as an associate with Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C., and then as a partner with Dilworth Paxson in Philadelphia.
Chief Judge, United States District Court, New Jersey
Renée Marie Bumb is the Chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.
Chief Judge, United States District Court for the District of Delaware
Colm F. Connolly has served as a United States District Judge since August 3, 2018. He was a partner at Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP from 2009 until he took the bench in 2018. He served as the United States Attorney for the District of Delaware from 2001 to 2009 and was an Assistant United States Attorney from 1993 to 1999. He was a partner with the firm of Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell from 1999 to 2001.
Judge Connolly was a law clerk for the Honorable Walter K. Stapleton of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit from 1991 to 1992. He hold degrees from the Duke University School of Law, the London School of Economics, and the University of Notre Dame.
Judge Connolly is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and a member of the American Law Institute.
United States Circuit Judge, United States Circuit Court, Third Circuit
Kent A. Jordan was appointed in 2006 to serve as a United States Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit. Before that, Judge Jordan was a United States District Judge for the District of Delaware from 2002 to 2006. He received a B.A. in Economics in 1981 from Brigham Young University and a J.D. in 1984 from Georgetown University. He was an Assistant United States Attorney and head of the Civil Division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Delaware. Later, he served as an officer and as a member of the boards of directors of privately held businesses and was a partner in a Wilmington, Delaware law firm. He is an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania and Vanderbilt University and currently serves as President of the Board of Trustees of the American Inns of Court Foundation, as well as on the boards of other non-profit organizations.
United States District Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
William Shaw Stickman IV was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1979 and grew up in the Mount Washington neighborhood of the city. Judge Stickman graduated as valedictorian from Our Lady of the Sacred Heart High School. He attended Duquesne University where he majored in the classics/ancient languages. Judge Stickman received his Bachelor of the Arts degree in 2002, summa cum laude, and was awarded the McAnulty College of Liberal Arts’ General Excellence Award (valedictorian).
Judge Stickman attended Duquesne University School of Law where he was a member of the Law Review. He graduated in 2005.
Judge Stickman began his legal career as a litigation associate in the Pittsburgh offices of Reed Smith LLP. He next served as a judicial law clerk to Chief Justice Ralph J. Cappy, of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. Judge Stickman returned to the practice of law as an associate, and later a partner, of the Pittsburgh litigation boutique firm of Del Sole Cavanaugh Stroyd LLC. In practice, Judge Stickman represented a diverse array of clients in state and federal trial and appellate courts throughout the United States.
In 2011 Judge Stickman was appointed by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to serve on the Pennsylvania Civil Procedural Rules Committee—a panel of lawyers and judges charged with aiding the Court in reviewing and revising Pennsylvania’s unique Rules of Civil Procedure. The Court appointed Judge Stickman to be Chair of the Committee in 2015.
Judge Stickman is active in legal scholarship. He is the author of a peer-reviewed publication on the ancient King’s Bench Jurisdiction of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. He has served as a frequent guest lecturer on topics relating to legal procedure and history.
Judge Stickman was nominated to serve as a Judge of the Western District of Pennsylvania on May 13, 2019. He was confirmed by the Senate on July 31, 2019, and received his commission on August 5, 2019.
United States District Judge, Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Judge Wolson was nominated to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in May 2018 and was confirmed in May 2019. Judge Wolson earned his J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School, B.A., magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania. After graduating from law school, he served as a law clerk for Hon. Jan E. DuBois of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He then maintained a complex commercial litigation practice, first as an associate with Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C., and then as a partner with Dilworth Paxson in Philadelphia.
Transparency in the Courts: A Conversation with Judges Connolly and Wolson
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2023 Third Circuit Chapters Conference
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