Richard Allen Posner

b. 1939 · New York, NY

Judicial Service

CourtTitleAppointed ByCommissionedTermination
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh CircuitJudgeRonald Reagan (Republican)Dec 1, 1981Retirement, Sep 2, 2017

Education

  • Yale College, A.B., 1959
  • Harvard Law School, LL.B., 1962

Professional Career

Law clerk, Hon. William J. Brennan, Jr., Supreme Court of the United States, 1962-1963; Legal assistant to the commissioner, Federal Trade Commission, 1963-1965; Assistant to the solicitor general, U.S. Department of Justice, 1965-1967; General counsel, President's Task Force on Communications, 1967-1968; Associate professor, Stanford Law School, 1968-1969; Faculty, University of Chicago Law School, 1969-; Member, Judicial Conference of the United States, 1994-2000

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