Solomon Oliver Jr. (born July 20, 1947) is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.
Solomon Oliver Jr.
Chief Judge — U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio
Born 1947 in Bessemer, AL
FJC ID: 1812
Career output and lasting influence
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 5/year
Ohio Northern District Court · 1994–
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
- Judicial Conference of the United StatesMember · 2009–2010
- Private practice, Wooster, Ohio1982–1994
Northern District of OhioAssistant U.S. attorney · 1976–1985- ↳chief, Civil Division · 1978–1982
- ↳chief, Appellate Division · 1982
- ↳special assistant U.S. attorney · 1982–1985
Law clerk , Hon. William Hastie · 1975–1976- College of WoosterAssistant professor · 1972–1975
- Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State UniversityProfessor of law
Appointments
1994–2021 · Appointed by William J. Clinton (Democratic)
Education
- Case Western Reserve UniversityM.A. · 1974
J.D. · 1972- College of WoosterB.A. · 1969