10 Facts About Dolores Sloviter

Dolores Korman Sloviter was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

Dolores Sloviter graduated from Temple University in 1953 with a bachelor's degree and received her Bachelor of Laws in 1956 from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she served as a Comments Editor of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review.

Dolores Sloviter was a law clerk for the City of Philadelphia Law Department in 1955.

Dolores Sloviter was in private law practice in Philadelphia until she became an associate professor of law at Temple University Beasley School of Law in 1972 and a professor of law at Temple in 1974, serving until 1979.

Dolores Sloviter was nominated by President Jimmy Carter on April 4,1979, to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, to a new seat created by 92 Stat.

Dolores Sloviter was confirmed by the United States Senate on June 19,1979, and received her commission on June 21,1979, becoming the first woman to serve on the Third Circuit and the fourth woman to serve on a United States Court of Appeals.

Dolores Sloviter served as Chief Judge from 1991 to 1998.

Dolores Sloviter assumed senior status on June 21,2013, the 34th anniversary of her appointment to the bench.

Dolores Sloviter died on October 12,2022, at the age of 90.

In 1996, Dolores Sloviter was a member of a three-judge panel of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania which heard a challenge to the Communications Decency Act, Title V of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, on grounds that it abridged the free speech provisions of the First Amendment.