Frank Hoover Easterbrook

Judge Frank Hoover Easterbrook

Personal

Birthday:

1948

Birthplace:

Buffalo, NY

Race or Ethnicity:

White

Gender:

Male

Prior Employment:

Law clerk, Hon. Levin H. Campbell, U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, 1973-1974
Assistant to the solicitor general, U.S. Department of Justice, 1974-1977
Deputy solicitor general, U.S. Department of Justice, 1978-1979
Principal employee, Lexecon, Inc., Chicago, Illinois, 1980-1985
Faculty, University of Chicago Law School, 1978-1985

Nominated to U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, August 1, 1984; no Senate vote

Education

Name of School:

Swarthmore College

Degree:

B.A.

Degree Year:

1970

Name of School - Second:

University of Chicago Law School

The University of Chicago Law School occupies a unique niche among this country's premier law schools. Located on a residential campus in one of America 's great cities, Chicago offers a rigorous and interdisciplinary professional education that blends the study of law with the humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences. Students, faculty, and staff form a small, tightly knit community devoted to the life of the mind. Learning is participatory. Chicago does not seek to impose a single viewpoint or style of thought on its students. Instead, our faculty exposes students to contrasting views, confident in students' abilities to choose their own paths.

Degree - Second:

J.D.

Degree Year - Second:

1973

Judicial Career

Court Name:

U. S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Court Name:

Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals

President Nominating:

Ronald Reagan

Party Affiliation of President:

Republican

Commission Date:

4/4/1985