Carol Los Mansmann (née Los; August 7, 1942 – March 9, 2002) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.
Carol Los Mansmann
Third Circuit Court of Appeals
Born 1942 in Pittsburgh, PA
Died 2002 in Pittsburgh, PA
FJC ID: 1474
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 34/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 753/year
Pennsylvania Western District Court · 1982–1985Third Circuit Court of Appeals · 1985–2002
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
- Female
- Race
- White
Prior employment
Faculty · 1974–1983, 1987–1994- ↳associate professor of law · 1974–1983
- ↳adjunct professor of law · 1987–1994
- Commonwealth of PennsylvaniaSpecial assistant to the attorney general · 1974–1979
- Private practice, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania1973–1979
- Allegheny County, PennsylvaniaAssistant district attorney · 1968–1972
- Jr., Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County [Pennsylvania]Law clerk , Hon. Ralph H. Smith · 1967–1968
Appointments
1985–2002 · Appointed by Ronald Reagan (Republican)Term ended: Death
1982–1985 · Appointed by Ronald Reagan (Republican)Term ended: Appointment to Another Judicial Position
Education
- J.D. · 1967
- Duquesne UniversityB.A. · 1964