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| Name | Andre M. Davis |
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Baltimore, Maryland , United States |
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February 11, 1949
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| Contributor | Scott³ |
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| Info | Andre Maurice Davis (born February 11, 1949) is a U.S. judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. He previously was a federal district judge, and was nominated first for a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit by President Bill Clinton in 2000. He was renominated to the Fourth Circuit by President Barack Obama on April 2, 2009, and he was confirmed by the Senate on November 9, 2009.
Born in Baltimore, Davis grew up in East Baltimore. His father was a schoolteacher, his mother was a food services worker and his stepfather was a steel worker, according to an October 12, 2000 article in the Baltimore Sun. Davis attended Phillips Academy for high school, and earned a bachelor's degree in American history from the University of Pennsylvania in 1971. Although he had planned to become a college professor, Davis chose to pursue a career in the law after taking an undergraduate course in constitutional law, according to the October 12, 2000 article in the Baltimore Sun. Davis earned a law degree from the University of Maryland School of Law in 1978. At the University of Maryland, Davis won the Myerowitz Moot Court Competition in 1977.
Prior to law school, Davis served as an assistant housing manager and equal opportunity specialist with the Housing Authority of Baltimore City. After graduating from law school, Davis clerked for U.S. District Judge Frank Kaufman of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland from 1978 until 1979. Davis then clerked from 1979 until 1980 for U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Francis Dominic Murnaghan, Jr. From 1980 until 1981, Davis worked as an appellate attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division. In 1981, Davis joined the United States Attorney's office for the District of Maryland as an Assistant U.S. Attorney until 1983, when he entered private practice. From 1984 until 1987, Davis worked as an assistant professor for the University of Maryland School of Law. He became a judge in 1987, when he was appointed to be an associate judge for the District Court of Maryland for Baltimore City. From 1990 until 1995, Davis worked as an associate judge for the Circuit Court for Baltimore City.
On October 12, 2000, President Clinton nominated Davis to be a judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, to replace Murnaghan, who had died. The nomination was a part of Clinton's effort to integrate the Fourth Circuit, which up to that point had never had an African-American Circuit Court of Appeals judge. However, since Davis was nominated after July 1, 2000, the unofficial start date of the Thurmond Rule during a presidential election year, no hearings were scheduled on his nomination, and the nomination was returned to Clinton at the end of his term. President George W. Bush chose not to renominate Davis to the Fourth Circuit.
On April 2, 2009, President Barack Obama nominated Davis to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. On June 4, 2009, the Senate Judiciary Committee endorsed the nomination by a vote of 17-3.
The full Senate voted 72-16 to confirm Davis on November 9, 2009. Davis received his commission on November 10, 2009.
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