Anthony A. Alaimo

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Anthony A. Alaimo (right) with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld (2nd from right) at the swearing in of four new members of a Military Tribunal Review Board, including former Federal Ministers Griffin B. Bell (left) and William Thaddeus Coleman (2nd from left), in Year 2004

Anthony A. Alaimo (born March 29, 1920 in Termini , Italy , †  December 30, 2009 in Brunswick , Georgia ) was an American lawyer . After his appointment by President Richard Nixon , he served as a federal judge in the federal district court for the southern district of Georgia from 1971 to 1991 .

Career

The on Sicily born Anthony Alaimo came as a two year old with his parents to the United States, where the family in Jamestown ( New York settled). He graduated from Ohio Northern University , where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1940 . He then served from 1941 to 1945 during the Second World War as a pilot in the United States Army Air Forces and rose to second lieutenant . On his return he attended the School of Law of Emory University in Atlanta , where he was in 1948 for Juris Doctor PhD. He then practiced as a lawyer in Atlanta until 1957, then in Brunswick until 1971.

Alaimo was a member of the Republican Party , but never held public office. In 1960 and 1964 he participated as a delegate to the Republican National Conventions . Between 1966 and 1967 he was a member of the Republican State Central Committee , the state executive committee of his party.

On November 29, 1971, Alaimo was appointed judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia by President Nixon ; so he took over a previously newly established seat. After confirmation by the US Senate , which followed three days later, he was able to take office on December 9 of the same year. From 1976 to 1990 he was Chief Judge Chairman of this federal court . On July 1, 1991, he switched to senior status and thus effectively retired. His seat fell to William Theodore Moore ; the court was chaired by Berry Avant Edenfield . He died on December 30, 2009 in Brunswick.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Florida Times-Union: Judge Anthony A. Alaimo dies at 89 (December 31, 2009)
personal data
SURNAME Alaimo, Anthony A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Termini , Italy
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 2009
Place of death Brunswick , Georgia