Phyllis A. Kravitch

Who is Phyllis A. Kravitch?

Phyllis A. Kravitch is a Senior Circuit Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. She sits in Atlanta, Georgia.

Kravitch was born in Savannah, Georgia and attended Armstrong Junior College, receiving an A.A. She later obtained her B.A. from Goucher College in 1941 and her LL.B. from University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1943. At University of Pennsylvania she served on the Law Review Board of Editors. She was in private practice from 1944 to 1976 and then served from 1977 to 1979 as a judge on the Superior Court of the Eastern Judicial Circuit of Georgia.

She was nominated to the federal bench by President Jimmy Carter, and ultimately appointed to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in 1979. In 1981, when the Fifth Circuit was split into the Fifth and Eleventh Circuit, Kravitch became a judge on the Eleventh Circuit, where she still sits as of 2013. Kravitch took senior status on December 31, 1996.