Raymond Charles Clevenger III

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Raymond Clevenger, an American jurist on the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, was born on 27 August 1937, in Topeka, Kansas, to R. Charles Clevenger and Mary Margaret Ramsey Clevenger. He was educated in the public schools in Topeka, Kansas, and at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. Judge Clevenger took a B.A. in 1959, from Yale University, graduating magna cum laude. After a stint at Morgan Guaranty Trust Company he earned an LL.B. at Yale Law School, graduating magna cum laude and Order of the Coif, in 1966.

He was a law clerk to Justice Byron White at the Supreme Court during the October term, 1966 and practiced law at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, in Washington, D.C. and London from 1967 to 1990. He was nominated by President George H. W. Bush for the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on January 24, 1990, confirmed on April 27, 1990, and assumed duties on May 3, 1990. He retired from active service and assumed senior status on February 1, 2006.

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• (2004) United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit: A History: 1990–2002 / compiled by members of the Advisory Council to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in celebration of the court's twentieth anniversary.. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.