Robert Byron Kugler (born October 10, 1950) is a senior

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of the

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and also serving as a Judge on the

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Education and career

Born in Camden,

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, Kugler attended and graduated from The Peddie School in 1968 and received a

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degree from Syracuse University in 1975 and a Juris Doctor from

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in Camden in 1978. He was a law clerk for Judge John F. Gerry of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey from 1978 to 1979. He was an Assistant Prosecutor, Camden County Prosecutor's Office, New Jersey from 1979 to 1981. He was a Deputy attorney general of Division of Criminal Justice, New Jersey Department of Law and Public Safety from 1981 to 1982. He was in private practice in

from 1982 to 1992.

District court service

Kugler was a

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of the

from 1992 to 2002. He was nominated by President

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on August 1, 2002, to a seat on the District Court vacated by

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. He was confirmed by the

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on November 14, 2002, and received his commission on December 4, 2002. On May 19, 2017 he was appointed to be a judge of the

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. He assumed

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on November 2, 2018.

Family

Kugler is the son of George F. Kugler, Jr., who served as

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from 1970 to 1974. His brother Pete Kugler played eight seasons in the

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for the

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and two seasons in the

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for the

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kugler, Robert Byron 1950 births Living people Judges of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey Judges of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court New Jersey lawyers People from Camden, New Jersey Rutgers School of Law–Camden alumni Syracuse University alumni United States district court judges appointed by George W. Bush United States magistrate judges 20th-century American lawyers 21st-century American judges