Legrome Derek Davis (born 1952) is an inactive Senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 2/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 2/year
Pennsylvania Eastern District Court · 2002–
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 Philadelphia County [Pennsylvania]Judge · 1987–2002
- Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaAssistant deputy district attorney · 1981–1987
- General Counsel Office, University of PennsylvaniaAttorney · 1987
- Private practice, Pennsylvania1987
- Pennsylvania Crime CommissionAttorney · 1980–1981
- Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaAssistant district attorney · 1977–1980
Appointments
2002–2017 · Appointed by George W. Bush (Republican)
Education
- Rutgers School of Law -- CamdenJ.D. · 1976
- Princeton UniversityB.A. · 1973