predecessor successor birth_place office birth_date term_start appointer article_title term_end name alma_mater
seat established lewis morgan frank hull seat abolished savannah , georgia , u.s. judge the eleventh circuit judge of the united states court of of appeals for the fifth circuit the united states court of appeals for 23 august 1920 october 1 , 1981 march 23 , 1979 jimmy carter phyllis a. kravitch
 december 31 , 1996 october 1 , 1981 phyllis kravitch goucher college university of pennsylvania
phyllis a. kravitch

phyllis a. kravitch -lrb- born august 23 , 1920 -rrb- is a senior circuit judge on the united states court of appeals for the eleventh circuit .
she sits in atlanta , georgia .
kravitch was born in savannah , georgia and attended armstrong junior college -lrb- savannah , georgia -rrb- , receiving an a.a. -lrb- 1939 -rrb- she later obtained her b.a. from goucher college in 1941 and her ll.b .
from university of pennsylvania law school in 1943 .
at university of pennsylvania she served on the law review board of editors .
she was in private practice from 1944 to 1976 and then served from 1977 to 1979 as a judge on the superior court of the eastern judicial circuit of georgia .
she was nominated to the federal bench by president jimmy carter , and ultimately appointed to the fifth circuit court of appeals in 1979 .
in 1981 , when the fifth circuit was split into the fifth and eleventh circuit , kravitch became a judge on the eleventh circuit , where she still sits as of 2015 .
kravitch took senior status on december 31 , 1996 .
