Juan Ramon Sánchez
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Juan Ramon Sánchez | |
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| Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania | |
| In office August 1, 2018 – March 4, 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Lawrence F. Stengel |
| Succeeded by | Mitchell S. Goldberg |
| Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania | |
| Assumed office June 24, 2004 | |
| Appointed by | George W. Bush |
| Preceded by | Jay Waldman |
| Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Chester County | |
| In office 1998 – June 2004 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | December 22, 1955[1] Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, U.S. |
| Education | City College of New York (BA) University of Pennsylvania (JD) |
Juan Ramon Sánchez (born December 22, 1955) is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He served as the chief judge of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania from 2018 to 2024.
Education and career
[edit]Born in Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, Sánchez received a Bachelor of Arts degree from City College of New York in 1978 and a Juris Doctor from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1981. He was a Staff attorney of Legal Aid of Chester County, Pennsylvania, from 1981 to 1983. He was in private practice in West Chester, Pennsylvania, from 1983 to 1984, and was then an attorney for the County of Chester Public Defender's Office from 1984 to 1997. He was a judge on the Chester County Court of Common Pleas from 1998 to 2004.
Federal judicial service
[edit]On November 25, 2003, Sánchez was nominated by President George W. Bush to a seat on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania vacated by Jay Waldman. Sánchez was confirmed by the United States Senate on June 23, 2004, and received his commission on June 24, 2004.
On August 1, 2018, Sánchez became the first Latino chief judge of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, due to the announced retirement of Lawrence F. Stengel.[2] Sánchez resigned from that position on March 4, 2024.
In February 2019, Sanchez found that the University of the Sciences had not breached its contractual promise of a fair process when it expelled a student accused of campus sexual assault without providing a live hearing or an opportunity to cross examine witnesses.[3][4] His judgment was then reversed by the unanimous United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in May 2020.[5]
See also
[edit]- List of Hispanic and Latino American jurists
- List of first minority male lawyers and judges in Pennsylvania
References
[edit]- ^ Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, First Session, Part 6
- ^ "New chief judge named for U.S. District Court". August 2, 2018. Archived from the original on October 31, 2019. Retrieved August 10, 2018.
- ^ Note, Recent Case: Third Circuit Holds Pennsylvania Law Guarantees a “Real, Live, and Adversarial Hearing”, 134 Harv. L. Rev. 2590 (2021)..
- ^ Doe v. Univ. of the Scis., No. 19-358 (E.D. Pa. Feb. 14, 2019).
- ^ Doe v. University of the Sciences, 961 F.3d 203 (3d Cir. 2020).
External links
[edit]- Juan Ramon Sánchez at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
- 1955 births
- Living people
- 20th-century American lawyers
- 20th-century American judges
- 21st-century American lawyers
- 21st-century American judges
- Hispanic and Latino American judges
- Hispanic and Latino American lawyers
- Judges of the Pennsylvania Courts of Common Pleas
- Judges of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
- Pennsylvania lawyers
- People from Vega Baja, Puerto Rico
- Public defenders
- United States district court judges appointed by George W. Bush
- University of Pennsylvania Law School alumni