Edmund V. Ludwig, a senior judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and an advocate for awareness of mental health for criminal defendants, died of heart failure Tuesday morning, three days shy of his 88th birthday.
Originally from Philadelphia, Ludwig moved in the mid-1950s to Bucks County where he eventually became a common pleas court judge in 1969. It was there that he took an interest in mental health reform, forming an ad hoc group of legal professionals to discuss the intersection of psychiatric issues and the law. He also lectured and taught on mental health and criminal law issues at several area law schools.
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