Phillip Benjamin Baldwin

Who was Phillip Benjamin Baldwin?

Phillip Benjamin Baldwin from 1968 to 1991 served as a judge on U.S. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals and on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Baldwin was born in Marshall, Texas, the son of Lucile Jones Baldwin and John Browning Baldwin, M.D. and brother of John Browning "Jack" Baldwin, Jr., Mary Jane Baldwin Sanders and Francis Scott "Scotty" Baldwin, Sr. He was the grandson of J.B. Baldwin, after whom the settlement of Baldwin, Texas was named. Judge Baldwin was a United States Army Air Corps pilot from 1943 to 1946, flying B-25 Mitchells in the South West Pacific theatre of World War II on low-level bombing raids. His unit was the 405th Flight Squadron, 38th Bomb Group, of the Fifth Air Force. He earned the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with six bronze service stars:. He was also decorated with the American Campaign Medal and by the Philippine Government with the Philippine Liberation Medal.

He later went on to pursue his undergraduate degree at North Texas State University, receiving a B.A. in 1949. He studied at both the South Texas College of Law and the Baylor Law School.