Ronald Lawrence Buckwalter (born December 11, 1936) 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 4/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 5/year
Pennsylvania Eastern District Court · 1990–2003
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
- Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster County [Pennsylvania]Judge · 1980–1990
- Private practice, Lancaster, Pennsylvania1963–1980
- Lancaster County, PennsylvaniaDistrict attorney · 1978–1980
- Lancaster County, PennsylvaniaAssistant district attorney · 1970–1978
- Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster County [Pennsylvania]Clerk , Hon. John Bowman and Hon. Anthony Appel · 1966–1970
- Lancaster, PennsylvaniaLegal aid attorney · 1964–1966
Appointments
1990–2003 · Appointed by George H.W. Bush (Republican)
Education
- William and Mary Law SchoolB.C.L. · 1962
- Franklin and Marshall CollegeA.B. · 1958