Thomas Demetrios Lambros: Difference between revisions

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| office = Chief Judge of the [[United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio]]

| term_start = 1990

| term_end = 1995

| predecessor = [[Frank J. Battisti]]

| successor = {{nowrap|[[George Washington White]]}}

| office1 = Judge of the [[United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio]]

| nominator1 = [[List of federal judges appointed by Lyndon B. Johnson|Lyndon B. Johnson]]

| term_start1 = August 28, 1967

| term_end1 = February 10, 1995

| predecessor1 = new seat

| successor1 = [[Donald C. Nugent]]

| birth_date = {{Birth-date and age|February 4, 1930}}

| birth_place = [[Ashtabula, Ohio]], U.S.

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| alma_mater = [[Cleveland-Marshall College of Law]]

'''Thomas Demetrios Lambros''' (born February 4, 1930) isa former [[United States federal judge]].

Lambros was born in [[Ashtabula, Ohio]]. He was the son of [[Greek American|Greek]] immigrants Demetrios P. and Panagoula (Bellios) Lambros, and was the youngest of five brothers. He graduated from Ashtabula High School in 1948 and attended [[Fairmont State University|Fairmont State College]] in [[West Virginia]], [[Academic major|majoring]] in [[pre-law]]. In 1952 at age 22, he received his [[Bachelor of Laws|LL.B.]] from [[Cleveland-Marshall College of Law]], having accelerated his studies by attending summer and night classes at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law and Case Western Reserve University School of Law.

Lambros was a claims representative for the Buckeye Union Casualty Company in [[Akron, Ohio]] from 1952 to 1953 while in [[Law schools in the United States|law school]]. In 1991, he was awarded an honorary doctor of law (LLD) degree from Capital University Law School in Columbus, Ohio.

After being [[Admission to the bar in the United States|admitted]] to the Ohio bar, Lambros joined the [[United States Army]], serving as a [[law clerk]] in the [[United States Army]] [[Judge Advocate General's Corps, United States Army|Judge Advocate General's Corps]] from 1954 to 1956.

Lambros was in [[Practice of law|private practice of law]] in [[Ashtabula, Ohio]] from 1956 to 1961 as a trial lawyer in the [[Law firm|firm]] of Lambros & Lambros. In 1960, he was elected at the age of 30 to the [[Ashtabula County]] [[Ohio Court of Common Pleas|Court of Common Pleas]]. He was reelected in 1966 without opposition. As a common pleas judge, he established a voluntary [[public defender]] program to provide free counsel to [[Poverty|indigent]] defendants, as well as a mandatory [[domestic relations]] reconciliation program.

[[President of the United States|President]] [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] nominated Lambros to the [[United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio]] on June 5, 1967, to a new seat created by {{USStat|80|75}}. [[Advice and consent|Confirmed]] by the [[United States Senate|Senate]] on August 18, 1967, he received [[Letters patent|commission]] the same day. He took the [[oath of office]] on August 28, 1967.

Lambros served as a member of the faculty and planning committees for seminars conducted at the [[Federal Judicial Center]] in 1970 and 1972 and the U.S. Attorney General's Advocacy Institute in [[Washington, D.C.]] He also conducted a [[Pilot program|pilot project]] on the use of videotaped [[trial]]s, in conjunction with the FJC. He was a member of the [[Judicial Conference of the United States|Judicial Conference]] Committee on the Operations of the Jury System from 1985 to 1987. Lambros served as [[chief judge]] from 1990 until his retirement on February 10, 1995.

He has been associated with several law firms since leaving the bench, most recently with the Warren, Ohio, law firm of Ford, Gold, Kovoor & Simon, Ltd. At these firms he has provided advice to clients on the handling of lawsuits across the country in federal and state courts. He has also been asked to serve as an arbitrator and mediator in a wide variety of cases, including Boston's "Big Dig" and the child sex abuse claims involving the Catholic diocese of Cincinnati.{{cn}}

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{{s-ttl|title=Judge of the [[United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio]] | years=1967–1995}}

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[[Category:Cleveland–Marshall College of Law alumni]]

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