Please answer the following question: Facts: - appointer: jimmy carter - successor: edward becker cheryl krause - predecessor: leon higginbotham seat established - office: chief for the third circuit judge of the united states court judge of appeals for the third circuit of the united states court of appeals - term end: january 31 , 1998 june 21 , 2013 - term start: february 1 , 1991 june 21 , 1979 - birth date: 1932 - name: dolores sloviter - birth place: philadelphia , pennsylvania , u.s. - alma mater: temple university university of pennsylvania Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of dolores sloviter .
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dolores korman sloviter -lrb- born 1932 -rrb- is a senior united states circuit judge of the united states court of appeals for the third circuit .born to a jewish-american family in 1932 in philadelphia , pennsylvania , she attended philadelphia high school for girls .she graduated from temple university in 1953 with an a.b. and received her j.d. in 1956 from the university of pennsylvania law school , where she served as a comments editor on the university of pennsylvania law review .sloviter was in private law practice until she became a professor of law at temple in 1972 .president jimmy carter appointed her to the third circuit in 1979 ; she was the first woman to serve on that court and only the fourth woman to serve as a federal court of appeals judge .sloviter served as chief judge from 1991 to 1998 , the only woman to have served as chief judge of the third circuit .in 1996 sloviter was a member of a three-judge panel of the eastern district of pennsylvania which heard a challenge to the communications decency act , title v of the telecommunications act of 1996 , on grounds that it abridged the free speech provisions of the first amendment .on june 12 , 1996 , their decision blocked enforcement of the act , ruling that it was unconstitutional , in addition to being unworkable and impractical from a technical standpoint .the '' findings of fact '' document -- written for the case by judges sloviter , ronald l. buckwalter , and stewart r. dalzell -- was posted on the internet and cited as a lucid introduction to the internet and related software .the u.s. supreme court upheld their ruling on june 18 , 1997 .in 2007 , one of her former clerks published a book commonly assumed to be based on the author 's experience working for sloviter .-lsb- http://articles.philly.com/2007-07-24/news/25241010_1_clerks-federal-courthouse-third-circuit sloviter took senior status as of june 21 , 2013 , the 34th anniversary of her appointment to the bench .although sloviter had been eligible to take senior...