Frederica Massiah-Jackson

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Frederica Massiah-Jackson is a Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas judge. She served as President Judge from November 2000 to January 2006.

Massiah-Jackson graduated from the Philadelphia High School for Girls in 3 years at the age of 16. She also graduated from Chestnut Hill College in 3 years and the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1974 at the age of 23 (the age at which most enter law school).

Following law school, she clerked for Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Robert N.C. Nix Jr. who later became Chief Justice. She joined the Philadelphia firm Blank Rome Comisky & McCauley in 1976 and stayed with the firm until her election to the bench in 1983.

In 1997, President Bill Clinton nominated her to become a federal district court judge. Her nomination was met with opposition, particularly by conservatives (see Ann Coulter), and she subsequently withdrew it.