Alma mater

University of Pennsylvania

85 U.S. federal judges studied here. See where it ranks among law schools by judges produced.

Judges

Judge	Degree	Role	Year
Joseph Hopkinson	A.B.	Judge	1786
Philemon Dickerson	A.B.	Judge	1808
John Cadwalader	B.A.	Judge	1821
Henry Galbraith Ward	B.A.	Judge	1870
Owen Josephus Roberts	A.B.	Associate Justice	1895
Charles Louis McKeehan	A.B.	Judge	1897
Charles William Kraft Jr.	A.B.	Judge	1924
John William Murphy	B.S.	Judge	1926
Joseph Putnam Willson	B.S.	Judge	1926
Walter Edward Hoffman	B.S.	Judge	1928
William Joseph Brennan Jr.	B.S.	Associate Justice	1928
John Morgan Davis	B.S.	Judge	1929
John Joseph Kitchen	A.B.	Judge	1933
Joseph Simon Lord III	A.B.	Judge	1933
Barrington Daniels Parker Sr.	M.A.	Judge	1938
Robert Lowe Kunzig	A.B.	Judge	1939
Alfred Leopold Luongo	B.S.	Judge	1941
Charles R. Weiner	A.B.	Judge	1947
Howard G. Munson	B.S.	Judge	1948
Herbert Allan Fogel	B.A.	Judge	1949
Marvin Katz	B.A.	Judge	1951
Jan Ely DuBois	B.S.	Judge	1952
Alan Neil Bloch	B.S.	Judge	1953
Edward Roy Becker	B.A.	Judge	1954
Morton Ira Greenberg	B.A.	Judge	1954
James Chris Cacheris	B.S.	Judge	1955
Bruce William Kauffman	B.A.	Judge	1956
Bruce William Kauffman	B.A.	Justice	1956
Albert Martin Rosenblatt		Associate Judge	1957
Michael M. Baylson	B.S.	Judge	1961
Alan David Lourie	Ph.D.	Judge	1965
Elihu M. Berle		Judge	1966
Ronald Murray Gould	B.S.	Judge	1968
Marjorie O. Rendell	B.A.	Judge	1969
Richard D. Bennett	B.A.	Judge	1969
Susan J. Dlott	B.A.	Judge	1970
Andre Maurice Davis	B.A.	Judge	1971
Gordon Ernest Goodman	magna cum laude	Justice	1974
Curtis Edward Andrew Karnow		Judge	1977
Paul G. Gardephe	B.A.	Judge	1979
Paul L. Seave		Judge	1979
Luis Felipe Restrepo	B.A.	Judge	1981
Leslie Emil Brown	Political Science & Environmental Studies	Judge	1982
Emily S. Garcia Uhrig	History, Economics	Judge	1987
Florence Y. Pan	B.A., B.S.	Judge	1988
Cheryl Ann Krause	B.A.	Judge	1989
Lydia Kay Griggsby	B.A.	Judge	1990
John Baylor Nalbandian	B.S.	Judge	1991
Thomas Patrick Barber		Judge	1992
David Seymour Leibowitz	B.A.	Judge	1993
Joshua David Wolson	B.A.	Judge	1996
Amanda M. Knapp	summa cum laude	U.S. Magistrate Judge	1999
Lauri Ann Damrell	English, magna cum laude	Judge	1999
A Dayton Oliphant		Justice	–
Allen M. Stearne		Justice	–
Corey G. Lee		Judge	–
Deborah Tobias Poritz		Justice	–
E. Norman Veasey		Justice	–
Herbert B. Cohen		Justice	–
Horace Stern		Justice	–
James Gardner Colins		Judge	–
James Hay		Judge	–
James J. Fitzgerald		Justice	–
Janice B. Davidson		Judge	–
John C. Arnold		Justice	–
John C. Bell Jr.		Justice	–
John F. McCuskey		Justice	–
John L. Musmanno		Judge	–
Karen Valihura		Justice	–
Leo E. Strine		Justice	–
Madaline Palladino		Judge	–
Nathan L. Jacobs		Justice	–
Peter B. Krauser		Judge	–
Randy J. Holland		Justice	–
Richard Lance Gabriel		Justice	–
Scott Wilson		Judge	–
Suidney W. Wernick		Justice	–
Susan Peikes Gantman		Judge	–
Susan R. Agid		Judge	–
Theodore O. Rogers		Judge	–
Thomas L. Smith		Justice	–
Thomas McKeen Chidsey		Justice	–
William B. Linn		Justice	–
William I. Schaffer		Justice	–
William Joseph Brennan Jr.		Justice	–

Source: FJC Biographical Directory. Data last verified 2026-08-15. Verify against the primary source before relying.