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Gerald Joseph Weber

Gerald Joseph Weber

Pennsylvania Western District Court

Chief Judge — U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Born 1914 in Erie, PA

Died 1989 in Erie, PA

FJC ID: 2527

Career output and lasting influence

Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 9/year

Pennsylvania Western District Court · 1964–19891964197019801990199790
citing decisions

Pennsylvania Western District Court · 1964–1989

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.

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Gerald Joseph Weber (February 1, 1914 – August 28, 1989) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.

Gender
Male
Race
White

Prior employment

  1. Judicial Conference of the United States
    Member · 1981–1984
  2. Private practice, Erie, Pennsylvania
    1940–1942, 1947–1964
  3. Erie, Pennsylvania
    City solicitor · 1950–1960
  4. U.S. Department of War, Salzburg, Austria
    Chief of counter-intelligence · 1946–1947
  5. U.S. Army captain
    1942–1946
  6. Gannon College, Erie, Pennsylvania
    Instructor · 1939–1941

Appointments

  1. Pennsylvania Western District Court
    1964–1989 · Appointed by Lyndon B. Johnson (Democratic)
    Term ended: Death

Education

  1. University of Pennsylvania Law School
  2. Harvard University
    A.B. · 1936