Phyllis Adele Kravitch (August 23, 1920 – June 15, 2017) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and later the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Atlanta, Georgia.
Phyllis A. Kravitch
Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals
Born 1920 in Savanah, GA
Died 2017 in Atlanta, GA
FJC ID: 1317
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 20/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 531/year
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals · 1979–1981Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals · 1981–2017
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
- Female
- Race
- White
Prior employment
Judge · 1977–1979- Private practice, Savannah, Georgia1944–1976
Appointments
1979–1981 · Appointed by Jimmy Carter (Democratic)Term ended: Reassignment
Education
- Goucher CollegeB.A. · 1941