Jerry Pappert

{{Short description|American judge (born 1963)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2011}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Jerry Pappert | honorific_suffix = | image = Gerald John Pappert (cropped).jpg | alt = | caption = Pappert in 2014 | office = Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania | term_start = December 4, 2014 | term_end = | appointer = Barack Obama | predecessor = Stewart Dalzell | successor = | office1 = 44th Attorney General of Pennsylvania | governor1 = Ed Rendell | term_start1 = December 15, 2003 | term_end1 = January 18, 2005<br>{{small|Acting: December 15, 2003 – February 2, 2004}} | predecessor1 = D. Michael Fisher | successor1 = Tom Corbett | pronunciation = | birth_name = Gerald John Pappert | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1963}} | birth_place = Albany, New York, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | citizenship = | party = Republican<ref>{{Cite web |last=Voruganti |first=Harsh |date=2017-03-31 |title=Understanding Blue Slips: What Are They and Why Do They Matter? |url=https://vettingroom.org/2017/03/31/understanding-blue-slips-what-are-they-and-why-do-they-matter/ |access-date=2021-04-24 |website=The Vetting Room |language=en}}</ref> | other_party = | height = | spouse = | partner = | relations = | children = | parents = | mother = | father = | relatives = | education = Villanova University (BA)<br>{{nowrap|Notre Dame University (JD)}} | occupation = | profession = | known_for = | salary = | net_worth = | cabinet = | committees = | portfolio = | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = | website =  | footnotes = }}

'''Gerald John Pappert''' (born 1963) is a judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and former unelected Pennsylvania Attorney General.

==Biography==

Pappert was born in 1963, in Albany, New York. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, in 1985 from Villanova University. He received a Juris Doctor in 1988 from the Notre Dame Law School. He began his legal career at the law firm of Duane Morris LLP, from 1988 to 1997. He served as the first deputy attorney general of Pennsylvania, from 1997 to 2003, and as the Attorney General of Pennsylvania, from 2003 to 2005. He was a partner at Ballard Spahr LLP, from 2005 to 2008. He served as executive vice president, general counsel and secretary of Cephalon, Inc., from 2008 to 2012. From 2012 to 2014, he was a partner at Cozen O'Connor. He concurrently served as chair of the Pennsylvania Banking and Securities Commission.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/06/13/president-obama-announces-intent-nominate-five-serve-united-states-distr|work=whitehouse.gov|title=President Obama Announces Intent to Nominate Five to Serve on the United States District Courts|via=National Archives|date=June 13, 2014}}</ref><ref>[http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/news/2014/06/14/obama-nominates-four-local-lawyers-to-federal.html "Obama Nominates Four Lawyers to Federal Bench" Philadelphia Business Journal, June 14, 2014]</ref><ref name="fjc.gov">{{FJC Bio|nid=1394696|inline=yes}}</ref>

===Federal judicial service===

On June 16, 2014, President Barack Obama nominated Pappert to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, to the seat vacated by Judge Stewart Dalzell, who assumed senior status on October 31, 2013.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/06/16/presidential-nominations-sent-senate|work=whitehouse.gov|title=Presidential Nominations Sent to the Senate|via=National Archives|date=June 16, 2014}}</ref> On July 24, 2014 a hearing before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary was held on his nomination.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/meetings/judicial-nominations_2014-07-24|title=United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary|website=www.judiciary.senate.gov|date=July 24, 2014 }}</ref> On September 18, 2014 his nomination was reported out of committee by a voice vote.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Results%20of%20Executive%20Business%20Meeting%209-18-14.pdf|title=Results of Executive Business Meeting – September 18, 2014 United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary}}</ref> On December 1, 2014, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid filed for cloture on his nomination. On December 3, 2014, the United States Senate invoked cloture on his nomination by a 67–28 vote.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=113&session=2&vote=00305|title=On the Cloture Motion (Motion to Invoke Cloture on Gerald J. Pappert, of Pennsylvania, to be U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania)|publisher=United States Senate|access-date=3 December 2014}}</ref> Later that day, he was confirmed by a voice vote.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.congress.gov/nomination/113th-congress/1778|title= PN1778 — Gerald J. Pappert — The Judiciary|publisher=congress.gov|access-date=1 November 2022}}</ref> He received his judicial commission on December 4, 2014.<ref name="fjc.gov"/>

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *{{FJC Bio|nid=1394696}} *{{Ballotpedia|Gerald_J._Pappert}}

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