Harvey Bartle III (born June 6, 1941) is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Harvey Bartle III
Pennsylvania Eastern District Court
Chief Judge — U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Born 1941 in Bryn Mawr, PA
FJC ID: 111
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 2/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 8/year
Pennsylvania Eastern District Court · 1991–2011
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
- White
Prior employment
- Judicial Conference of the United StatesMember · 2008–2011
- Private practice, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania1967–1979, 1981–1991
- Commonwealth of PennsylvaniaAttorney general · 1980–1981
- Commonwealth of PennsylvaniaInsurance commissioner · 1979–1980
U.S. Army Reserve captain1966–1972
Law clerk , Hon. John Morgan Davis · 1965–1967
Appointments
1991–2011 · Appointed by George H.W. Bush (Republican)
Education

- Princeton UniversityB.A. · 1962