Dolores Korman Sloviter (September 5, 1932 – October 12, 2022) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Dolores Korman Sloviter
Third Circuit Court of Appeals
Chief Judge — U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Born 1932 in Philadelphia, PA
Died 2022
FJC ID: 2208
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 42/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 986/year
Third Circuit Court of Appeals · 1979–2022
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
- Judicial Conference of the United StatesMember · 1991–1997
- Temple University School of LawFaculty · 1972–1979
- ↳associate professor · 1972–1974
- ↳professor · 1974–1979
- Private practice, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania1956–1972
- City of Philadelphia [Pennsylvania] Law DepartmentLaw clerk · 1955
Appointments
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third CircuitChief Judge1979–2022 · Appointed by Jimmy Carter (Democratic)Term ended: Death
Education
- Temple UniversityA.B. · 1953