Ronald L. Buckwalter

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Ronald Lawrence Buckwalter is a judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Born in 1936 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Judge Buckwalter graduated from the Franklin and Marshall College in 1958 and received his B.C.L. from the William and Mary College of Law in 1962. Judge Buckwalter was in private practice in Lancaster from 1963 to 1980. From 1966 to 1970 Judge Buckwalter also served as a law clerk in the Court of Common Pleas for Lancaster county. From 1970 to 1978 he served as an assistant district attorney, and from 1978 to 1980 he served as the district attorney for the county, before being elected as a judge on the Court of Common Pleas. In 1989 he was nominated by President George H.W. Bush to serve as a district court judge on the Eastern District, a position he assumed in 1990. He assumed senior status in 2003.


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