Preceded by Seat established Succeeded by Seat abolished Succeeded by Frank Hull Name Phyllis Kravitch | Role Judge Preceded by Lewis Morgan | |
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Alma mater Goucher CollegeUniversity of Pennsylvania | ||
Hon. Phyllis A. Kravitch, Senior U.S. Circuit Judge (Atlanta): On Judges' Reading
Phyllis Adele Kravitch (August 23, 1920 – June 15, 2017) was a Circuit Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Atlanta, Georgia.
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- Hon Phyllis A Kravitch Senior US Circuit Judge Atlanta On Judges Reading
- Kravitch clerks who went on to clerk at US Supreme Court
- References
Kravitch was born in Savannah, Georgia, one of four daughters of Aaron Kravitch, an attorney, and Ella B. Wiseman. She attended Armstrong Junior College (Savannah, Georgia), receiving an A.A. (1939). She later obtained her B.A. from Goucher College in 1941. She graduated with a LL.B. from University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1943, her father Aaron's alma mater (Law 1917). At University of Pennsylvania she served on the Law Review Board of Editors. She was in private practice from 1944 to 1976 and then served from 1977 to 1979 as a judge on the Superior Court of the Eastern Judicial Circuit of Georgia.
President Jimmy Carter nominated Kravitch to the federal bench and she was ultimately appointed to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in 1979, the third woman to serve as a U.S. Circuit Court judge. In 1981, when the Fifth Circuit was split into the Fifth and Eleventh Circuit, Kravitch became a judge on the Eleventh Circuit, where she still sat as of 2015. Kravitch took senior status on December 31, 1996. She died on June 15, 2017, at Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta at age 96.