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Edward George Smith (1961-27 November 2023) was a Republican Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania from 31 March 2014 to 27 November 2023, succeeding Berle M. Schiller.

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Edward George Smith was born in Fort Knox, Kentucky in 1961, and he served in the US Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps for 27 years, becoming commanding officer of the Naval Reserve Naval Justice School. He earned the Bronze Star for valor shown during the Iraq War, after which he became a judge in Norfolk, Virginia and a senior trial defense counsel in Philadelphia; he also practiced law in Easton from 1990 to 2002 and served on the Northampton County court of common pleas from 2002 to 2014. While he failed in his 1996 congressional bid, he served as a federal district court judge from 2014 to 2023, having been appointed by President Barack Obama. He died in 2023.

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