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Pamela Mathy
Pamela A. Mathy is a former federal magistrate judge for the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas. She was appointed to this position on June 8, 1998. She retired from the bench in 2016.[1]
Education
Judge Mathy received a B.A. degree from Marquette University in 1973 and an M.A. degree from the University of Texas - Austin in 1976. She then attended law school at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, where she earned her J.D. degree in 1978. She also holds an LL.M. degree from Georgetown University, which she received in 1982.[2]
Career
Judge Mathy began her career in 1978 as a law clerk and staff attorney to Judge Walter Cummings of the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. In 1981, she became a senior staff attorney on this court. She also taught as an adjunct professor of law at ITT's Kent College of Law in 1982 and 1983. In 1983, she joined the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Texas, where she worked as an Assistant Attorney, Chief of the Major Crimes Section and as a First Assistant. She was then appointed a magistrate judge in 1998.[2]
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Footnotes
- ↑ [ Just the Beginning Foundation, "Female Magistrate Judges"] Scroll to page 9
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Biography of Judge Mathy
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