Luis Felipe Restrepo

Luis Felipe Restrepo
Honorable L. Felipe Restrepo and Senator Toomey during Judge Restrepo's Senate Judiciary Hearing
Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Incumbent
Assumed office January 13, 2016
Appointed by	Barack Obama
Preceded by	Anthony Joseph Scirica
Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
In office June 19, 2013 – January 13, 2016
Appointed by	Barack Obama
Preceded by	Anita B. Brody
Personal details
Born	Luis Felipe Restrepo 1959 (age 57–58) Medellín, Colombia
Education	University of Pennsylvania (B.A.) Tulane University Law School (J.D.)

Luis Felipe Restrepo (born 1959) is a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and former United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Restrepo was born in Medellín, Colombia, and was raised in northern Virginia. He was sworn in as a United States Citizen on September 7, 1993. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1981 from the University of Pennsylvania. He received his Juris Doctor in 1986 from Tulane Law School. Restrepo began his legal career as a law clerk at the American Civil Liberties Union National Prison Project. From 1987 to 1990, he served as an Assistant Defender with the Defender Association of Philadelphia. He served as an Assistant Federal Defender in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania from 1990 to 1993. He was a partner at the law firm of Krasner & Restrepo from 1993 to 2006. From 2006 to 2013, he served as a United States Magistrate Judge of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania where he presided over a variety of criminal and civil matters. He has served in a variety of teaching positions; since 1993 he has served as an Adjunct Professor teaching Trial Advocacy at Temple University Beasley School of Law. From 1997 to 2009 he served as an Adjunct Professor teaching Trial Advocacy at University of Pennsylvania Law School and in the summer of 1992 he served as an Adjunct Professor teaching a course in Criminal Justice at Peirce College.