Alvin Wesley Thompson Jr. (born March 2, 1953) is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut.
Alvin W. Thompson
Chief Judge — U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut
Born 1953 in Baltimore, MD
FJC ID: 2371
Career output and lasting influence
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 2/year
Connecticut District Court · 1994–Connecticut District Court · 1994–
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
- African American
Prior employment
- Private practice, Hartford, Connecticut1978–1994
Appointments
1994–2018 · Appointed by William J. Clinton (Democratic)
1994–present
Education
J.D. · 1978- Princeton UniversityB.A. · 1975