Harvey Erwin Schlesinger (born June 4, 1940) is a

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United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida.

Education and career

Schlesinger was born in 1940 in New York City,

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. He graduated from James Madison High School in Brooklyn in 1958. He received his Bachelor of Arts

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from The Citadel in 1962 and his

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from the University of Richmond T.C. Williams School of Law in 1965. Schlesinger served in the United States Army from 1965 to 1968, attaining the rank of

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. Schlesinger was an

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at John Marshall Law School in Atlanta, Georgia from 1967 to 1968 and

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for Seaboard Coast Line Railroad in Jacksonville, Florida from 1968 to 1970. Schlesinger was the Chief Assistant

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from 1970 to 1975. He served as a United States magistrate judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida from 1975 to 1991, and as an

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at the University of North Florida from 1984 to 1992.

Federal judicial service

President

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nominated Schlesinger on May 23, 1991 to the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, to the seat vacated by Judge

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. Confirmed by the

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on June 27, 1991, he received commission on July 2, 1991. Schlesinger assumed senior status on June 5, 2006.

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Education and career

Federal judicial service

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