Levin H. Campbell

Who is Levin H. Campbell?

Levin Hicks Campbell is an American federal appellate judge, on senior status with the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston.

Born in Summit, New Jersey, Campbell received an A.B. from Harvard College in 1948 and an LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1951. Entering as a Private in 1951, he served as a United States Army Lieutenant in the Judge Advocate General's Corps from 1952 to 1954, and received the Commendation Medal for his service in Korea. He then went into private practice of law in Boston with Ropes, Gray, Best, Coolidge & Rugg. He entered politics in 1963, performing several roles in Massachusetts over the next decade. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1963 to 1964. Later he was an assistant attorney general of Massachusetts, serving under Attorney General Edward W. Brooke, and First Assistant Attorney General of Massachusetts serving under Attorney General Elliott L. Richardson, before being appointed an associate justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court in 1968, a position in which he served through 1970.

On November 12, 1971, President Richard M.