Leonard Philip Stark | |
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Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware | |
Assumed office July 1, 2014 |
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Preceded by | Gregory M. Sleet |
Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware | |
Assumed office August 10, 2010 |
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Appointed by | Barack Obama |
Preceded by | Kent A. Jordan |
Magistrate Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware | |
In office 2007 – August 10, 2010 |
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Personal details | |
Born |
Leonard Philip Stark 1969 (age 47–48) Detroit, Michigan |
Education |
University of Delaware B.A., B.S., M.A. Magdalen College, Oxford D. Phil. Yale Law School J.D. |
Leonard Philip Stark (born 1969) is the Chief United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware and was a United States Magistrate Judge of the same district.
Born in Detroit, Stark earned a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Science in history and political science and a Master of Arts in history from the University of Delaware, all in 1991. Stark also earned a Doctor of Philosophy in politics from Magdalen College at the University of Oxford in 1993 as a Rhodes Scholar. Finally, Stark earned a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School in 1996.
From 1996 until 1997, Stark served as a law clerk to United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit Judge Walter King Stapleton.
From 1997 until 2001, Stark was an associate with the Wilmington, Delaware office of the law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. From 2002 until 2007, Stark served as an Assistant United States Attorney in Wilmington.
In 2007, the judges on the United States District Court for the District of Delaware selected Stark to be a United States Magistrate Judge in Wilmington.