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Charles Nelson Clevert Jr. (born October 11, 1947) is a former
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of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin.


Education and career

Born in
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,
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. Clevert received a
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degree from Davis and Elkins College in 1969 and a
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from Georgetown University Law Center in 1972. He was an assistant
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of
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,
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from 1972 to 1975. He was an
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of the Eastern District of Wisconsin from 1975 to 1977, and was a Special Assistant United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois in 1977. Clevert was a United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Eastern District of Wisconsin from 1977 to 1995, and was the Chief United States Bankruptcy Judge from 1986 to 1995. He was also a lecturer at the University of Wisconsin Law School from 1989 to 1990.


Federal judicial service

On December 7, 1995, Clevert was nominated by President
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to a seat on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin vacated by
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. Clevert was confirmed by the
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on July 17, 1996, and received his commission on July 29, 1996. He was Chief Judge from September 1, 2009, to October 31, 2012. He took
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on October 31, 2012. He retired from active service on March 31, 2017.


See also

* List of African-American federal judges * List of African-American jurists *
List of first minority male lawyers and judges in Wisconsin This is a list of the first minority male lawyer(s) and judge(s) in Wisconsin. It includes the year in which the men were admitted to practice law (in parentheses). Also included are men who achieved other distinctions such becoming the first in t ...


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