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]]

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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 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.

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

{{s-bef|before=[[Frank J. Battisti]]}}

{{s-ttl|title={{nowrap|Chief Judge of the [[United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio]]}}|years=1990–1995}}

{{s-aft|after=[[George Washington White]]}}