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McKee, Theodore Alexander
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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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2004-01-01 |
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| Name | Theodore Alexander McKee |
| Address |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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June 05, 1947
(77 years)
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| Contributor | Scott³ |
| Last Modifed | Scott³
Dec 03, 2009 08:09pm |
| Tags |
African -
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| Info | Born 1947 in Rochester, NY
Federal Judicial Service:
U. S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Nominated by William J. Clinton on March 22, 1994, to a seat vacated by Aloyisus Leon Higginbotham, Jr.; Confirmed by the Senate on June 8, 1994, and received commission on June 9, 1994.
Born in Rochester, New York in 1947, McKee earned his bachelor's degree from the State University of New York at Cortland. After graduation, McKee became Director of Minority Recruitment and Admissions for the State University of New York at Binghamton, and served as chair of the University's newly-created Afro American Studies Program, coordinating the search for a permanent academic to head the department. In 1972, McKee entered law school at Syracuse University. He graduated magna cum laude in 1975, and was awarded the Order of the Coif.
Upon graduation, McKee practiced law as a litigation associate at the Philadelphia firm of Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-Cohen. After two years with the firm, McKee left to become an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, where he worked first in the General Crimes Unit, then in Narcotics and Firearms, and finally in the Political Corruption Unit. In his first year as an Assistant U.S. Attorney, McKee was responsible for investigating allegations of police brutality before a special grand jury, as part of a nationwide probe into police brutality by the United States Civil Rights Commission. As a federal prosecutor, McKee also helped secure indictments against six Philadelphia homicide detectives for civil rights violations and won a racketeering conviction against the chief judge of Philadelphia's traffic court.
In 1980, McKee became Deputy City Solicitor for Philadelphia's Law Department, heading the Revenue Unit and the Code Enforcement Unit. In late 1983, McKee was elected to the Court of Common Pleas for the First Judicial District of Pennsylvania. As a judge, McKee has heard cases in the felony, homicide and orphans' divisions. In addition, from 1980 to 1991, McKee taught trial advocacy at the Rutgers University School of Law.
In 1986, the Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court appointed McKee to the state's Commission on Sentencing, an 11 member committee that develops sentencing guidelines and policies. McKee is currently acting chair of the Commission.
McKee's life of public service includes significant activities off the bench as well. He has been involved with the "Big Brothers" program since 1969, and still remains in touch with his first "little brother." McKee has served on a number of civic boards, including the Crisis Intervention Network, which combats drug use and gang violence in Philadelphia, the Crime Prevention Association and Concerned Black Men, both of which help direct urban youth away from crime, and New Directions for Women, which provides female offenders with drug rehabilitation, education, and job counseling.
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