Terry Julius Hatter Jr. (born March 11, 1933) is a
senior
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United States district judge
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of the
.
Education and career
Hatter was born on March 11, 1933, in
Chicago
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. He received a
Bachelor of Arts
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degree from
Wesleyan University
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in 1954 and a
Juris Doctor
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from the
University of Chicago Law School
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in 1960. He was a
United States Air Force
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NCO-In-Charge from 1955 to 1956. He was an adjudicator for the
United States Veterans Administration in Chicago from 1960 to 1961. Hatter was in private practice in Chicago from 1961 to 1962. He was an assistant public defender in
Cook County
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, Illinois from 1961 to 1962. He was an
Assistant United States Attorney
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of the Northern District of California from 1962 to 1966. He was a Special Assistant United States Attorney of Eastern District of California from 1965 to 1966. He was Chief Counsel of the San Francisco Neighborhood Legal Assistance Foundation from 1966 to 1967. He was regional legal services director of the Office of Economic Opportunity in
San Francisco
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,
California
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from 1967 to 1970. He was Executive Director of the Western Center on Law and Poverty in
Los Angeles
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, California from 1970 to 1973. He was an associate clinical professor of law at the
USC Gould School of Law
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from 1970 to 1974. He was a Professor of law at
Loyola Law School
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Academics
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in Los Angeles from 1973 to 1975. He was a special assistant to the mayor and director of criminal justice planning in Los Angeles from 1974 to 1975. He was a special assistant to the mayor and director of urban development in Los Angeles from 1975 to 1977. Hatter was a judge of the
Superior Court of California
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in
Los Angeles County
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from 1977 to 1980.
Federal judicial service
Hatter was nominated by President
Jimmy Carter
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on September 28, 1979, to the
, to a new seat created by 92 Stat. 1629. He was confirmed by the
United States Senate
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on December 19, 1979, and received his commission on December 20, 1979. He served as Chief Judge from 1998 to 2001.
He assumed
senior status on April 22, 2005.
See also
*
List of African-American federal judges
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List of African-American jurists
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*
List of United States federal judges by longevity of service
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References
External links
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1933 births
Living people
21st-century American judges
African-American judges
Assistant United States attorneys
California state court judges
Judges of the United States District Court for the Central District of California
Public defenders
Superior court judges in the United States
United States district court judges appointed by Jimmy Carter
University of Chicago Law School alumni
Wesleyan University alumni