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Steven Pepe
Steven D. Pepe was a federal magistrate judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. He served in this position from December of 1983[1] to March 02, 2009.[2]
Education
Judge Pepe received his B.A. degree in political science from the University of Notre Dame, his J.D. degree from the University of Michigan Law School in 1968, and his LL.M. degree from Harvard University Law School in 1974.[3]
Career
Judge Pepe began his career in 1968 as a law clerk for U.S. Circuit Judge Harold Leventhal. He then worked as a staff attorney for the Neighborhood Legal Services Program from 1969 to 1970. After returning from a two-year stint at the London School of Economics in 1972, he became a Teaching Fellow at Harvard Law School. In 1974, he joined the University of Michigan Law School, where he worked as a Clinical Professor of Law and the Director of the Clinical Program until 1983. He was then appointed magistrate judge. He continued to lecture at the University of Michigan until 1997 and he also taught briefly at the University of Detroit Law School in 1985.[1][3]
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