THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
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For Immediate Release
October 6, 2000
PRESIDENT CLINTON NOMINATES JUDGE ANDRE M. DAVIS
TO THE FEDERAL BENCH
The President today nominated Judge Andre M. Davis to the U.S. Court
of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
Judge Andre M. Davis, of Ellicott City, Maryland, has served as a
United States Dictrict Court Judge for the District of Maryland since 1995.
Judge Davis began his legal career as a federal law clerk, first for the
Honorable Frank A. Kaufman of the United States District Court for the
District of Maryland and then for the Honorable Francis D. Murnaghan of the
United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Judge Davis is
being nominated to fill the seat of the late Judge Murnaghan, for whom
Davis clerked two decades ago.
After his clerkships, Judge Davis worked briefly for the U.S. Justice
Department?s Civil Rights Division and then returned to Baltimore to serve
as an Assistant United States Attorney. He also worked as a visiting
professor and then as an assistant professor at the University of Maryland
School of Law. In 1987, Governor William Donald Schaefer appointed Judge
Davis to serve as Associate Judge of the Baltimore City District Court and
subsequently elevated Judge Davis to the Circuit Court of Baltimore City in
1990. In November 1992, Judge Davis was elected to a fifteen-year term on
the Circuit Court of Baltimore City bench, where he served as a judge until
his ascension to the District Court bench in 1995.
Judge Davis received his B.A. degree from the University of
Pennsylvania in 1971 and his J.D. degree, with honors, from the University
of Maryland School of Law in 1978.
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