Federal judiciary
Cathy Bissoon
Chief Judge, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
Appointment
- Court
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
- Title
- Judge
- Appointed by
- Barack ObamaDemocratic
- Seat
- PAWD1104
- Nominated
- Jan. 5, 2011
- Committee hearing
- June 22, 2011
- Committee action
- Reported (favorably)July 21, 2011
- Senate vote
- 82–3Roll Call
- Confirmed
- Oct. 17, 2011
- Commissioned
- Oct. 19, 2011
- ABA rating
- Qualified
- Chief Judge from
- Jan. 1, 2025
Source Federal Judicial Center.
Recent judicial activity
Opinions authored and panels sat on, most recent first.
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Sept. 14panel identified Sat on the panel in Texasldpc Inc. v. Broadcom Inc.
Cases
Appellate cases on which this judge sat, drawn from panel information published with each decision.
| Case | No. | Status | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Texasldpc Inc. v. Broadcom Inc. | 25-1074 | Decided | Sept. 14, 2026 |
Judicial writings
No writings are attributed to this judge in the ingested records.
Source Authorship is recorded only where the source data carries it. For recent Courts of Appeals opinions CourtListener frequently publishes the decision as a single document without naming the authoring judge, so an absence here means the attribution is unavailable upstream — not that the judge has written nothing.