{{Short description|American judge}} {{Infobox judge | honorific_prefix = | name = Jerry L. Buchmeyer | honorific_suffix = | image = Buchmeyer.JPG | alt = | caption = | office = Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas | term_start = September 5, 2003 | term_end = September 21, 2009 | office1 = Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas | term_start1 = 1995 | term_end1 = 2001 | predecessor1 = Barefoot Sanders | successor1 = A. Joe Fish | office2 = Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas | term_start2 = October 5, 1979 | term_end2 = September 5, 2003 | nominator2 = | appointer2 = Jimmy Carter | predecessor2 = William McLaughlin Taylor Jr. | successor2 = Jane J. Boyle | pronunciation = | birth_name = Jerry Lynn Buchmeyer<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/1991/june/buchmeyer-vs-dallas/|title=Buchmeyer vs. Dallas|date=June 1991|work=D Magazine|first=Dennis|last=Holder}}</ref> | birth_date = {{Birth date|1933|09|05}} | birth_place = Overton, Texas, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|2009|09|21|1933|09|05}} | death_place = San Marcos, Texas, U.S. | death_cause = | education = Kilgore College (AA)<br>University of Texas at Austin (BA, LLB) }}
'''Jerry Lynn Buchmeyer''' (September 5, 1933 – September 21, 2009) was an American lawyer and jurist who served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas in Dallas, Texas.
==Early life and education==
Born in Overton, Texas, on September 5, 1933, Buchmeyer received an Associate of Arts degree from Kilgore Junior College (now Kilgore College) in 1953, his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 1956, and his Bachelor of Laws from the University of Texas School of Law in 1957.
== Career == From 1958 to 1979, Buchmeyer worked in private law practice in Dallas at the law firm of Thompson & Knight.<ref name="auto">{{FJC Bio|307|nid=1378501|name=Jerry Buchmeyer<!--(1933–2009)-->}}</ref><ref name="obit">Simnacher, Joe [http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/education/stories/092209dnmetbuchmeyerob.3f40c60.html Judge Jerry Buchmeyer, who transformed Dallas public housing, dies at 76], Dallas Morning News, 2009-09-22, retrieved 2009-09-22</ref> <!--FJC Bio gives his Kilgore degree as a B.S., but that is obviously in error, as that institution granted no such degree at the time.--> === Federal judicial service === Buchmeyer was nominated by President Jimmy Carter on August 3, 1979, to a seat on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas vacated by Judge William McLaughlin Taylor Jr. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on October 4, 1979, and received his commission on October 5, 1979. He served as chief judge from 1995 to 2001.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Association |first=American Bar |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JSX3ASx_vkkC&dq=Jerry+Buchmeyer&pg=PA30 |title=ABA Journal |date=1997 |publisher=American Bar Association |language=en}}</ref> He assumed senior status on September 5, 2003. His service terminated on September 21, 2009, due to his death in San Marcos, Texas.<ref name="auto"/><ref name="obit" />
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==External links== * [http://saywhat.texasbar.com/ "Say What?!"] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20080207012021/http://www.dallasbar.org/judiciary/profiles.asp?item=65 Dallas Bar Association profile] * {{FJC Bio|307|nid=1378501|name=Jerry Buchmeyer<!--(1933–2009)-->}}
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