Peter Jo Messitte

Judge Peter Jo Messitte

Personal

Birthday:

1941

Birthplace:

Washington, DC

Race or Ethnicity:

White

Gender:

Male

Prior Employment:

Volunteer, Peace Corps, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1966-1968
Private practice, Washington, D.C., 1969-1971
Private practice, Chevy Chase, Maryland, 1971-1985
Associate judge, Maryland Circuit Court, Montgomery County, 1985-1993

Education

Name of School:

Amherst College

Degree:

B.A.

Degree Year:

1963

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:

1966

Judicial Career

Court Name:

U. S. District Court, District of Maryland

Court Name:

Maryland District Court

President Nominating:

William J. Clinton

Party Affiliation of President:

Democratic

Commission Date:

10/20/1993

Retirement from Active Service:

9/1/2008