Legrome D. Davis

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Legrome D. Davis (born 1952) is an inactive Senior United States district judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He was born in Columbus, Ohio. He earned a BA from Princeton University in 1973 and a JD from Rutgers Law School in 1976.

Davis worked as an assistant district attorney in Philadelphia from 1977 to 1980, then spent a year with the Pennsylvania Crime Commission. He returned to the Philadelphia D.A.’s Office from 1981 to 1987, then spent a year in the University of Pennsylvania’s general counsel office. He briefly practiced law privately in 1987. In 1987 he was elected a judge on the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, in the criminal division, and served there until 2002. He was one of the Casey Five, a group chosen to replace judges removed for corruption.

Davis was nominated to the federal bench by President Bill Clinton twice, on July 30, 1998 and January 26, 1999, for the seat vacated by Judge Edmund V. Ludwig; both nominations lapsed. On January 23, 2002, President George W. Bush nominated him to the same seat. He was confirmed by the Senate on April 18, 2002, and received his commission on April 23, 2002. He assumed senior status on September 28, 2017.