Donetta W. Ambrose

Donetta W. Ambrose
Judge on the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
Incumbent
Assumed office 1993
Nominated by	Bill Clinton
Preceded by	Gerald Joseph Weber
Personal details
Born	1945 New Kensington, Pennsylvania

Donetta W. Ambrose (born 1945) is a United States federal judge. She assumed senior status on November 5, 2010.

Born in New Kensington, Pennsylvania, Ambrose received a B.A. from Duquesne University in 1967 and a J.D. from Duquesne University School of Law in 1970. She was a law clerk to Louis Manderino of Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania from 1970 to 1971. She was an assistant attorney general of Pennsylvania Department of Justice from 1972 to 1974, thereafter entering private practice in New Kensington until 1981. She was an assistant district attorney in the Westmoreland County District Attorney's Office from 1977 to 1981. She was a judge of the Westmoreland County Court of Common Pleas from 1982 to 1993.

On October 25, 1993, Ambrose was nominated by President Bill Clinton to a seaton the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. vacated by Gerald Joseph Weber. She was confirmed by the United States Senate on November 20, 1993, and received her commission on November 24, 1993. She began serving as chief judge of the court in 2002.

Sources

• Donetta W. Ambrose at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center.

Persondata
Name	Ambrose, Donetta W.
Alternative names
Short description	United States federal judge
Date of birth	1945
Place of birth	New Kensington, Pennsylvania
Date of death
Place of death