Thomas Ignatius Vanaskie (born November 11, 1953) is a former United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and former judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.
Thomas Ignatius Vanaskie
Third Circuit Court of Appeals
Chief Judge — U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania
Born 1953 in Shamokin, PA
FJC ID: 2451
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 2/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 15/year
Pennsylvania Middle District Court · 1994–2010Third Circuit Court of Appeals · 2010–2019
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
- Judicial Conference of the United StatesMember · 2003–2005
- Private practice, Scranton, Pennsylvania1980–1994
Law clerk , Hon. William Nealon · 1978–1980
Appointments
2010–2019 · Appointed by Barack Obama (Democratic)Term ended: Retirement- 1994–2010 · Appointed by William J. Clinton (Democratic)Term ended: Appointment to Another Judicial Position
Education
- Dickinson School of Law (now Penn State Dickinson Law)J.D. · 1978
- Lycoming CollegeB.A. · 1975