Albert Richard Caputo (May 22, 1938 – March 11, 2020) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.
A. Richard Caputo
Pennsylvania Middle District Court
Born 1938 in Portchester, NY
Died 2020
FJC ID: 2720
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 4/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 11/year
Pennsylvania Middle District Court · 1997–2020
Both charts share the same year axis. Opinion counts include only opinions in our corpus attributed to this judge so far — a year at zero can mean an attribution gap, not judicial silence. Influence typically outlasts the career: citations keep climbing after the last opinion.
- Gender
- Male
- Race
- White
Prior employment
- Private practice, Kingston, Pennsylvania1968–1997
- Luzerne County, PennsylvaniaAssistant public defender · 1968
U.S. Air Force judge advocate1964–1967- Private practice, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania1963–1964
Appointments
1997–2020 · Appointed by William J. Clinton (Democratic)Term ended: Death
Education
- Brown UniversityA.B. · 1960