Thomas Schroeder
US district judge in the Middle District of North Carolina.
Commissioned on 8 January 2008 after nomination by President George W. Bush, Thomas Schroeder later served as his district's chief judge from 2017 to 2023. He practised law in Winston-Salem before his appointment.
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Thomas Schroeder serves on the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina. President George W. Bush nominated him in January 2007, and the Senate confirmed him in December. He received his federal commission on 8 January 2008. Schroeder subsequently served as the district's chief judge from 2017 to 2023.
His [Federal Judicial Center biography](https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/schroeder-thomas-d) records an undergraduate degree from the University of Kansas and a law degree from Notre Dame. After law school, he clerked for Judge George E. MacKinnon on the federal appeals court for the District of Columbia Circuit. Schroeder then entered private practice in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where he worked from 1985 to 2007.
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