Gregory M. Sleet

Gregory M. Sleet
Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware
In office 2007–2014
Preceded by	Sue Lewis Robinson
Succeeded by	Leonard P. Stark
Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware
Incumbent
Assumed office April 30, 1998
Appointed by	Bill Clinton
Preceded by	Joseph J. Longobardi
Personal details
Born	(1951-03-08) March 8, 1951 New York City, New York, U.S.
Alma mater	Hampton University Rutgers University School of Law at Camden

Gregory Moneta Sleet (born March 8, 1951 in New York, New York) is currently a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware. A graduate of the Rutgers University School of Law at Camden, where he was an Earl Warren scholar, he was appointed as a District Judge by President Bill Clinton in 1998 at the recommendation of then Delaware U.S. Senator and former Vice President Joe Biden, and served as Chief Judge on the court from 2007 to July 1, 2014. Previously in 1995, he served as the United States Attorney for the District of Delaware. He was the first African American to be appointed United States Attorney in Delaware, and the first to be appointed the federal bench in Delaware. From the years of 1992-1994, Sleet was in-house counsel at Hercules Incorporated and before that position, he was the Deputy Attorney General for the State of Delaware and served, for 6 years, as an Assistant Public Defender with the Defender Association of Philadelphia.

He is the son of Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Moneta Sleet.

Due to the expertise and experience in patent law that Judge Sleet has acquired from hearing numerous patent cases during his tenure as a District Judge and Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware, he also teaches courses in Patent Litigation at Duke University School of Law, Widener University School of Law and Rutgers University School of Law.

In 1995, Sleet was appointed by then U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno for a 2 year term to the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee ("AGAC"), a group designed to set policy and strategy for the U.S. Department of Justice, and also a group which Sleet was made Vice Chair of in 1995-1995 by Reno in August of 1995. In 1998, Delaware Today magazine selected Judge Sleet as "Delawarean of the Year" and in 2000, he was named one of “Fifty of the Finest” graduates in the first fifty years of Rutgers University.

Additionally, Judge Sleet was presented the Distinguished Service Award in 1994 by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Central Delaware Branch. Sleet is also a member of the Third Circuit Committee on Criminal Pattern Jury Instructions, the Third Circuit Judicial Council Automation & Technology Committee, the Third Circuit Judicial Council Facilities and Security Committee and Member of the Third Circuit Judicial Council Case Management Committee.

External links

• Adjunct Professor Profile - Rutgers University School of Law

• Gregory M. Sleet at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center.