Mark R. Kravitz

Mark Richard Kravitz is a Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1950, after earning a B.A. in 1972 from Wesleyan University (magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa), he received an J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center in 1975, where he served as Managing Editor of the Georgetown Law Journal.^[1]

After graduating from law school, Kravitz served as a law clerk to Judge James Hunter, III, Circuit Judge, of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and subsequently to Chief Justice (then Justice) William H. Rehnquist, of the United States Supreme Court.

He was nominated by U.S. President George W. Bush to fill a seat on the court vacated by Alfred V. Covello on March 27, 2003 and was confirmed by the United States Senate on June 11, 2003. He received his commission on June 12, 2003. Before his appointment to the federal bench, Kravitz was a partner at the Connecticut-based law firm of Wiggin and Dana, LLP, where his practice centered on appellate litigation. "In that capacity, he argued cases before the United States Supreme Court and in federal circuit courts and state supreme courts throughout the United States."^[2] From 1999-2003, Kravitz served as a regular commentator and columnist for the National Law Journal on appellate law. He also has authored numerous articles on a variety of legal topics. In 2006 and 2009, he was appointed a Senior Fellow in Law at the University of Melbourne Graduate School of Law, in Melbourne, Australia. Kravitz also was a Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School.

References

1. ^ http://www.ctd.uscourts.gov/bio_mrk.html
2. ^ http://www.ctd.uscourts.gov/bio_mrk.html

• Mark R. Kravitz at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center.

See also

• List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States

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