1. Patricia Jean Boyle was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan from 1978 to 1983 and an associate justice of the Michigan Supreme Court from 1983 to 1999.
10 Facts About Patricia Boyle
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Patricia Boyle was a law clerk to Kenneth Davies, a Detroit attorney from 1963 to 1964, and to Judge Thaddeus M Machrowicz of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan from 1964 to 1965.
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Patricia Boyle was an Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan in Detroit from 1965 to 1970.
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Patricia Boyle was an assistant prosecuting attorney of Wayne County, Michigan from 1970 to 1976.
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Patricia Boyle was a judge of the Recorder's Court of the City of Detroit from 1976 to 1978.
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On July 25,1978, Boyle was nominated by President Jimmy Carter to a seat on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan vacated by Judge Damon Keith.
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Patricia Boyle was confirmed by the United States Senate on September 22,1978, and received her commission the following day.
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Patricia Boyle resigned on April 20,1983, to be appointed as an associate justice of the Michigan Supreme Court.
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Patricia Boyle was elected to the Court in 1986, and re-elected to an eight-year term beginning in 1990.
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Patricia Boyle died on January 13,2014, of respiratory failure at the age of 76, in Fort Myers, Florida.