President Clinton Nominates Harry Peter Litman and David Stewart Cercone to the Federal Bench (7/27/00)

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President Clinton Nominates Harry Peter Litman and David Stewart Cercone to the Federal Bench (7/27/00)

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                              THE WHITE HOUSE

                       Office of the Press Secretary

____________________________________________________________________
For Immediate Release                                          July 27,
2000


            PRESIDENT CLINTON NOMINATES HARRY PETER LITMAN AND
                DAVID STEWART CERCONE TO THE FEDERAL BENCH

     The President today nominated Harry Peter Litman and David Stewart
Cercone to the U.S. District Court for the Western District of
Pennsylvania.

     Harry Peter Litman, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been the United
States Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania since 1998.  Prior
to assuming his current position, Litman served as a Deputy Assistant
Attorney General with the U.S. Department of Justice (1993-1996) and was
simultaneously a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District
of Virginia (1996-1998).  Previously, Litman worked as an Assistant U.S.
Attorney for the Northern District of California (1990-1993), and was a
private practitioner in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1989-1990).  He received
his A.B. degree from Harvard University in 1981 and his J.D. degree from
the University of California at Berkeley in 1986.  Following law school,
Litman clerked for the Honorable Abner J. Mikva of the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (1986-1987), the Honorable
Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court (1987-1988), and the Honorable
Anthony M. Kennedy of the U.S. Supreme Court (1989).

     David Stewart Cercone, of McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, has served as a
trial judge in the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas since 1986.
Prior to assuming the state bench, Cercone was a solo practitioner in
McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania (1982-1985), and was an Assistant District
Attorney for Allegheny County (1979-1981).  Cercone received his B.A.
degree from Westminster College in 1974 and his J.D. degree from Duquesne
University School of Law in 1977.  Following law school, Cercone clerked
for the Honorable Paul R. Zavarella of the Allegheny County Court of Common
Pleas (1978-1979).

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