Cynthia Marie Rufe (née Favata; born 1948) is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 5/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 9/year
Pennsylvania Eastern District Court · 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
- Court of Common Pleas of Bucks County [Pennsylvania]Judge · 1994–2002
- Private practice, Pennsylvania1982–1993
- Bucks County [Pennsylvania] Children and Youth Social Services AgencySolicitor · 1984–1988
- Bucks County [Pennsylvania] Public Defender's Office1977–1982
- ↳assistant and coordinator, Juvenile Division · 1977–1982
- ↳deputy public defender · 1980–1981
Appointments
2002–2021 · Appointed by George W. Bush (Republican)
Education
- State University of New York at Buffalo Law SchoolJ.D. · 1977
- Adelphi UniversityB.A. · 1970