Carlisle is a borough in and the county seat of Cumberland County,Pennsylvania,United States. Carlisle is located within the Cumberland Valley,a highly productive agricultural region. As of the 2020 census,the borough population was 20,118;including suburbs in the neighboring townships,37,695 live in the Carlisle urban cluster. Carlisle is the smaller principal city of the Harrisburg–Carlisle metropolitan statistical area,which includes all of Cumberland,Dauphin,and Perry counties in South Central Pennsylvania.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit is a federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts for the following districts:
Penn State Dickinson Law,formerly Dickinson School of Law,is a public law school in Carlisle,Pennsylvania. It is one of two separately accredited law schools of Pennsylvania State University.
The United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania is a district level federal court with jurisdiction over approximately one half of Pennsylvania. The court was created in 1901 by subdividing the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. The court is under the jurisdiction of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
John Edward Jones III is the 30th President at Dickinson College and a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. He is best known for his presiding role in the landmark Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District case,in which the teaching of intelligent design in public school science classes was ruled to be unconstitutional. In 2014,he ruled that Pennsylvania's 1996 ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional. On May 14,2021,it was announced that Judge Jones would serve as interim president of his alma mater Dickinson College for a two-year period beginning July 1,2021. On February 28,2022,Jones was named the 30th President of Dickinson College.
Diana E. Murphy was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and a former United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota.
Freda Linsenbaum Wolfson is a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.
Dolores Korman Sloviter was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Gregory Moneta Sleet is a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware.
Mitchell Harry Cohen was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.
Christopher Charles Conner is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.
Joseph James Farnan Jr. is a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware.
George Purnell Fisher was Attorney General of Delaware,Secretary of State of Delaware,a United States representative from Delaware and an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia,now the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
Yvette Kane is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.
Gary L. Lancaster was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.
William Joseph Nealon Jr. was an American jurist who was United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. He was the last judicial appointee from the Kennedy administration remaining on the federal bench and among the longest-serving federal judges in history,with over 26 years of active service and nearly 56 years of total service.
Sue Lewis Robinson is a former United States District Judge who was part of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware.
Michael Henry Sheridan was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.
Richard Barclay Surrick is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
