Thomas Demetrios Lambros (born February 14, 1930) is a former United States federal judge.
Lambros was born in Ashtabula, Ohio. He was the son of Greek immigrants Demetrios P. and Panagoula (Bellios) Lambros and the youngest of five brothers. He graduated from Ashtabula High School in 1948 and attended Fairmont State CollegeinWest Virginia, majoringinpre-law. Later received his LL.B. from Cleveland-Marshall College of Law in 1952. Lambros was a claims representative for the Buckeye Union Casualty Company in Akron, Ohio from 1952 to 1953 while in law school.
After being 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 from 1954 to 1956.
Lambros was in private practice of lawinAshtabula, Ohio from 1956 to 1961 as a trial lawyer in the firm of Lambros & Lambros. In 1960, he was elected at the age of 30 to the Jefferson County 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 indigent defendants, as well as a mandatory domestic relations reconciliation program.
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 80 Stat. 75. Confirmed by the Senate on August 18, 1967, he received commission the same day. He took the oath of office on August 28, 1967.
Johnson 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 project on the use of videotaped trials, in conjunction with the FJC. He was a member of the 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.
