The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit is about to lose another giant from its ranks, as Senior Judge Ruggero J. Aldisert announced recently that he is planning to retire entirely from judicial service in August. Aldisert joined the Third Circuit in July 1968, appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson, and thus Aldisert will have served on the court for more than 46 years when he steps down this summer.
By the time I arrived at the Third Circuit as a judicial law clerk for another judge in 1989, Aldisert had already taken senior status and had relocated his chambers, for health reasons, from Pittsburgh to Santa Barbara, Calif. Despite being based in California, Aldisert continued to serve on Third Circuit panels, in addition to sitting by designation from time to time in the Ninth Circuit, the federal appellate court encompassing California. And he also occasionally accepted invitations to sit by designation on other federal appellate courts.
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