James Curtis Joyner (born April 18, 1948) is a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
J. Curtis Joyner
Pennsylvania Eastern District Court
Chief Judge — U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Born 1948 in Newberry, SC
FJC ID: 1212
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 35/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 83/year
Pennsylvania Eastern District Court · 1992–2021
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
- African American
Prior employment
- Court of Common Pleas of Chester County [Pennsylvania]Judge · 1987–1992
- Private practice, West Chester, Pennsylvania1975–1987
- Chester County [Pennsylvania] District Attorney's Office1975–1987
- ↳assistant district attorney · 1975–1980
- ↳chief deputy district attorney · 1980–1984
- ↳first assistant district attorney · 1984–1987
- U.S. Office of the Federal RegisterLegal publications specialist · 1974–1975
Appointments
1992–2021 · Appointed by George H.W. Bush (Republican)Term ended: Retirement
Education
- National Judicial College
J.D. · 1974- Central State University, OhioB.S. · 1971