Elizabeth Preston Deavers
2010 - Present
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Elizabeth A. Preston Deavers is the chief magistrate judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. She was first appointed to the court on March 15, 2010. Her current term expired on March 14, 2018.[1]
Early life and education
Judge Deavers earned her bachelor's degree in political science with a minor in philosophy from Ohio State University in 1989, and her J.D. from Capital University Law School, Order of the Curia, in 1994. During a period of her graduate studies, she was editor-in-chief of The Capital University Law Review.[1]
Career
Judge Deavers entered private practice in 1994 as an attorney with Bricker & Eckler, LLP, in Columbus, Ohio. From 1997 to 2000, she served as a term law clerk to United States District Judge Edmund A. Sargus, Jr. She returned to Bricker & Eckler following her term clerkship. In 2002, she returned to the district court as Judge Sargus’s career law clerk in 2002, where she served until taking the bench as a federal magistrate judge in 2010.[1]
See also
- United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio
- United States Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit
External links
Footnotes
Federal courts:
Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals • U.S. District Court: Northern District of Ohio, Southern District of Ohio • U.S. Bankruptcy Court: Northern District of Ohio, Southern District of Ohio
State courts:
Ohio Supreme Court • Ohio District Courts of Appeal • Ohio Courts of Common Pleas • Ohio County Courts • Ohio Municipal Courts • Ohio Court of Claims
State resources:
Courts in Ohio • Ohio judicial elections • Judicial selection in Ohio
