Who appointed Carol Los Mansmann?

President Ronald Reagan appointed Carol Los Mansmann to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in 1985.

Was Carol Los Mansmann appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?

Carol Los Mansmann was appointed by President Ronald Reagan, a Republican. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.

What was Carol Los Mansmann's confirmation vote?

Carol Los Mansmann was confirmed by voice vote on April 3, 1985. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.

Third Circuit / Appointed 1985 / Served to 2002

Carol Los Mansmann

Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

Appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1985 and confirmed by voice vote, Carol Los Mansmann was a Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. She earned a law degree from Duquesne University School of Law in 1967. She previously served on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1942–2002
Appointed by: Ronald Reagan, 1985
Confirmed: by voice vote
Education: Duquesne 1964 · Duquesne Law 1967
Succeeded by: D. Michael Fisher

Federal judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1982	Western District of Pennsylvania succeeded William W. Knox	Reagan (R)	Voice vote
1985	Third Circuit	Reagan (R)	Voice vote

Party letters show the appointing president’s party, not the judge’s own. A voice vote means the chamber approved aloud. No senator-by-senator tally is recorded.

Confirmation vote

Voice vote

The Senate approved this confirmation aloud, with no senator-by-senator tally recorded. Recorded roll-call votes begin in 1989.

Education

Duquesne University	B.A.	1964
Duquesne University School of Law	J.D.	1967

Judicial Record

In our data, Mansmann authored 32 published opinions for the court (1982–1985). Most cited: Miller v. Indiana Hospital (33 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1983	Miller v. Indiana Hospital	562 F. Supp. 1259	33
1985	Longo v. Pennsylvania Electric Co.	618 F. Supp. 87	29
1982	Shaw v. Russell Trucking Line, Inc.	542 F. Supp. 776	29
1984	Home for Crippled Children v. Prudential Insurance	590 F. Supp. 1490	27
1984	Amalgamated Cotton Garment & Allied Industries Fund v. J.B.C. Co. of Madera, Inc.	608 F. Supp. 158	26
1983	Cole v. Ford Motor Co.	566 F. Supp. 558	21
1982	Liem Duc Nguyen v. United States Catholic Conference	548 F. Supp. 1333	19
1984	Kimball v. Schwartz	580 F. Supp. 582	17
1984	Bey v. Williams	590 F. Supp. 1150	16
1985	Dravo Corp. v. White Consolidated Industries, Inc.	602 F. Supp. 1136	14
1984	Yoder v. United States (In Re Yoder )	48 B.R. 744	13
1984	Reinforced Molding Corp. v. General Electric Co.	592 F. Supp. 1083	11
1983	Dravo Mechling Corp. v. Standard Terminals, Inc.	557 F. Supp. 1162	11
1984	Zumerling v. Marsh	591 F. Supp. 537	10
1982	Leech v. First Commodity Corp. of Boston	553 F. Supp. 688	10

Showing the 15 most-cited of 32 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

Who appointed Carol Los Mansmann?: President Ronald Reagan appointed Carol Los Mansmann to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in 1985.
Was Carol Los Mansmann appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?: Carol Los Mansmann was appointed by President Ronald Reagan, a Republican. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.
What was Carol Los Mansmann's confirmation vote?: Carol Los Mansmann was confirmed by voice vote on April 3, 1985. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.
Which court was Carol Los Mansmann on?: Carol Los Mansmann was a Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

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16 years on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Data as of 2026-08-10. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).