Eric L. Clay
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Eric Lee Clay | |
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Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit | |
Assumed office August 1, 1997 | |
Appointed by | Bill Clinton |
Preceded by | Ralph B. Guy Jr. |
Personal details | |
Born | Eric Lee Clay January 18, 1948 Durham, North Carolina, U.S. |
Education | University of North Carolina (BA) Yale University (JD) |
Eric Lee Clay (born January 18, 1948) is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
Early life, education and legal training
Born in Durham, North Carolina, Clay earned a Bachelor of Arts degree Phi Beta Kappa from the University of North Carolina in 1969 and a Juris Doctor in 1972 from Yale Law School, where he was a classmate of future president Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton. Clay clerked for United States District Judge Damon Keith from June 1972 until June 1973.[1]
Professional career
Clay worked as a lawyer in private practice in Detroit, Michigan from 1973 until 1997. He was a partner and co-founder of Lewis, White & Clay, which was considered to be one of the nation's leading black-owned law firms.[1] In addition, he also served on the executive board of the Clinton-Gore finance committee for Michigan in 1992. David Baker Lewis, Clay's law partner, was the husband of Kathleen McCree Lewis, a Clinton nominee to the Sixth Circuit who was never confirmed.[2]
Federal judicial service
On March 6, 1996, President
See also
- List of African-American federal judges
- List of African-American jurists
References
- ^ a b [1] Archived January 18, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b "Clay, Eric L. - Federal Judicial Center". www.fjc.gov.
External links
- Eric L. Clay at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center.