Danny C. Reeves | |
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Member of the United States Sentencing Commission | |
In office March 21, 2017 –March 21, 2021 | |
Preceded by | Ricardo Hinojosa |
Succeeded by | Claire McCusker Murray |
Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky | |
Assumed office August 16,2019 | |
Preceded by | Karen K. Caldwell |
Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky | |
Assumed office December 10,2001 | |
Appointed by | George W. Bush |
Preceded by | Seat established by 114 Stat. 2762 |
Personal details | |
Born | Corbin,Kentucky,U.S. | August 1,1957
Education | Eastern Kentucky University (BA) Salmon P. Chase College of Law (JD) |
Danny Clyde Reeves [1] (born August 1,1957) is the Chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky.
Born in Corbin,Kentucky,Reeves received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Eastern Kentucky University in 1978 and a Juris Doctor from Salmon P. Chase College of Law at Northern Kentucky University in 1981.
He was a law clerk to Judge Eugene E. Siler,Jr. of the United States District Court for the Eastern &Western Districts of Kentucky from 1981 to 1983. He was in private practice in Kentucky from 1983 to 2001.
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