United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania

The United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania sits in Pittsburgh, Erie, and Johnstown, Pennsylvania. It is composed of ten judges as authorized by federal law. Chief Judge Donetta W. Ambrose presides. Appeals from this court are heard by the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

Current Judges

*Barron Patterson McCune
*Maurice Blanchard Cohill, Jr. (1976-present)
*Paul Allen Simmons (1978-present)
*Gustave Diamond (1978-present)
*Alan Neil Bloch (1979-present)
*Glenn Everell Mencer (1982-present)
*William Lloyd Standish (1987-present)
*Donald J. Lee (1990-present)
*Donnetta W. Ambrose (1993-present)
*Gary L. Lancaster (1993-present)
*Sean J. McLaughlin (1994-present)
*Joy Flowers Conti (2002-present)
*David S. Cercone (2002-present)
*Terrence F. McVerry (2002-present)
*Arthur J. Schwab (2002-present)
*Kim R. Gibson (2003-present)
*Nora Barry Fischer (2007-present)

Former Judges

*Walker, Jonathan Hoge (1818-1824)
*Wilkins, William (1824-1831)
*Irwin, Thomas (1831-1859)
*McCandless, Wilson (1859-1876)
*Ketcham, Winthrop Welles (1876-1879)
*Acheson, Marcus Wilson (1880-1891)
*Reed, James Hay (1891-1892)
*Buffington, Joseph (1892-1906)
*Ewing, Nathaniel (1906-1908)
*Young, James Scott (1908-1914)
*Orr, Charles Prentiss (1909-1922)
*Thomson, W. H. Seward (1914-1932)
*Gibson, Robert Murray (1922-1949)
*Schoonmaker, Frederic Palen (1922-1945)
*McVicar, Nelson (1928-1960)
*Gourley, Wallace Samuel (1945-1976)
*Follmer, Frederick Voris (1946-1955)
*Burns, Owen McIntosh (1949-1952)
*Marsh, Rabe Ferguson Jr. (1950-1993)
*Stewart, William Alvah (1951-1953)
*Willson, Joseph Putnam (1953-1998)
*Miller, John Lester (1954-1978)
*McIlvaine, John Wilson (1955-1963)
*Sorg, Herbert Peter (1955-1979)
*Dumbauld, Edward (1961-1997)
*Rosenberg, Louis (1961-1999)
*Weber, Gerald Joseph (1964-1989)
*Weis, Joseph Francis Jr. (1970-1973)
*Knox, William W. (1970-1981)
*Teitelbaum, Hubert Irving (1970-1995)
*Ralph Francis Scalera (1971-1976)
*Daniel John Snyder, Jr. (1973-1980)
*Donald Emil Ziegler (1978-2003)
*Carol Los Mansmann (1982-1985)
*D. Brooks Smith (1988-2002)
*Timothy K. Lewis (1991-1992)
*Robert J. Cindrich (1994-2004)
*Thomas Michael Hardiman (2003-2007)

United States Attorneys

* Mary Beth Buchanan (2001-current)

External links

* [http://www.pawd.uscourts.gov/ Official site]