John Garvan Murtha (born March 3, 1941) is an inactive Senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Vermont.
John Garvan Murtha
Chief Judge — U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont
Born 1941 in Hartford, CT
FJC ID: 1731
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 7/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 22/year
Vermont District Court · 1995–2009
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
- Private practice, Brattleboro, Vermont1973–1995
- Windham County, VermontDeputy state's attorney · 1970–1973
E. Barrett Prettyman Fellow · 1968–1970
Appointments
1995–2009 · Appointed by William J. Clinton (Democratic)
Education
- LL.M. · 1970
LL.B. · 1968- Yale UniversityB.A. · 1963