Willard Craig Broadwater | |
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Installed | July 26, 1996 |
Term ended | December 18, 2006 |
Predecessor | Robert Earl Maxwell |
Successor | Gina Marie Groh |
Personal details | |
Born |
Willard Craig Broadwater August 8, 1950 Elk City, Oklahoma |
Died |
December 18, 2006 (aged 56) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
Education |
West Virginia University (B.A.) West Virginia University College of Law (J.D.) |
Willard Craig Broadwater (August 8, 1950 – December 18, 2006) was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia.
Education and career[]
Born in Elk City, Oklahoma, Broadwater graduated from Paden City High School in West Virginia and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from West Virginia University in 1972 and a Juris Doctor from West Virginia University College of Law in 1977. He was also a Lieutenant in the United States Army from 1972 to 1982. He was in private practice in Wheeling, West Virginia from 1977 to 1983. He was a Hearing examiner for the West Virginia Worker's Compensation Fund from 1978 to 1981. He was a Special prosecuting attorney of Ohio County, West Virginia from 1982 to 1983, and then became a circuit court judge for the First Judicial Circuit of West Virginia, from 1983 to 1996.
Federal judicial service[]
On January 26, 1996, Broadwater was nominated by President Bill Clinton to a seat on the United States District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia vacated by Robert Earl Maxwell. Broadwater was confirmed by the United States Senate on July 12, 1996, and received his commission on July 26, 1996. Broadwater served in that capacity until his death, in 2006, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Death[]
Broadwater died on December 18, 2006, at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center of complications of cancer.[1]
Notes[]
- ↑ Press, The Associated. "U.S. District Judge Craig Broadwater dies". http://triblive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/breaking/s_484933.html.
References[]
- W. Craig Broadwater at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
The original article can be found at W. Craig Broadwater and the edit history here.