Keith P. Ellison

Keith P. Ellison
Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas
Incumbent
Assumed office July 7, 1999
Nominated by	Bill Clinton
Preceded by	Norman William Black
Personal details
Born	1950 (age 73–74) New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
Alma mater	Harvard University Magdalen College, Oxford Yale Law School

Keith P. Ellison (born 1950) is a judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas. His chambers are in Houston, Texas.

Educated first at Harvard College, from which he received a B.A. from Harvard University in 1972, Ellison was awarded a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford where he studied at Magdalen College, receiving a second B.A. in 1974. He received his Juris Doctor from Yale Law School in 1976.

After graduating from Yale, he clerked for Judge J. Skelly Wright on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He then clerked for Justice Harry Blackmun on the Supreme Court during the October 1977 term, before entering private practice in Houston, Texas.

On January 26, 1999, Ellison was nominated by President Bill Clinton to a seat on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas vacated by Norman W. Black. Ellison was confirmed by the United States Senate on June 30, 1999, and received his commission on July 7, 1999. His chambers were in Laredo, Texas, until 2005 when his duty station transferred to Houston.

See also

• List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States

References

• Keith P. Ellison at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center.

Legal offices
Preceded by Norman William Black	Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas 1999–present	Incumbent