Northern District, Ohio - Hon. Patricia A. Gaughan, Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court - Northern District of Ohio, announced that Charles Esque Fleming, Esq., was sworn in today to serve as a U.S. District Judge in Cleveland, Ohio. Judge Fleming was nominated by President Joseph R. Biden, Jr., to serve a life term. He replaces District Judge James S. Gwin, who assumed senior status in Feb. 2021.
Judge Fleming served as an Assistant Federal Public Defender beginning in 1991 and as a Supervisor in the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the Northern District of Ohio since 2010. He represented indigent defendants in federal criminal cases at both the trial and appellate levels. As an attorney with Forbes, Forbes & Associates from 1990 to 1991, he had a wide-ranging civil practice, which included employment discrimination, property, torts, municipal and state bonding, domestic relations, contracts and corporate law. From 2007 to 2018, Judge Fleming served as an adjunct professor of trial advocacy at the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. He earned his B.B.A. from Kent State University in 1986 and his J.D. from Case Western Reserve University School of Law in 1990.
Chief Judge Gaughan said, “We are very excited to have Charles Fleming join the Court as a District Judge. He has the judicial temperament, intelligence, work ethic, and commitment to justice to be an invaluable asset to our Bench.”
The United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio has court locations in Cleveland, Akron, Toledo, and Youngstown and serves 6 million citizens in the 40 northern most counties in Ohio.
Contact:
Sandy Opacich, Clerk of Court
216.357.7068
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