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. . Judge James E. Beasley ---
Judge Beasley was sworn in as a Judge of the Court of Judicial Discipline on January 23, 2002.

Judge Beasley graduated from Temple University in 1953, and Temple Law School in 1956.

Judge Beasley served in the U.S. Navy and while in college joined the ROTC and became Cadet Regimental Commander and was awarded the Scabbard and Blade Award as the outstanding military student. He has also received the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Justice Michael Musmanno Award, Temple University General Alumni Associations Certificate of Honor, Temple Russell Conwell Award, The Chapel of Four Chaplains Legion of Honor. He is noted in the Best Lawyers in America and in various Who's Who publications.

He is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and New York as well as being admitted to practice in the U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and Southern District of New York and in the following U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th, 8th, 9th, District of Columbia Circuit and member of the National Transportation Safety Board Bar Association.

Judge Beasley spent two years as a law clerk for The Honorable John W. Lord, Jr. of the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He served as President of the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association and President of the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association. He is a member of the Inner Circle of Advocates, American Law Institute and is Chairman of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court Committee on Standard Jury Instruction (Civil).

He has lectured at the Philadelphia area law schools and Pennsylvania and New Jersey Bar Associations. At the request of The American Law Institute he published a nationwide analysis of product liability law in the United States titled, "Product Liability and the Unreasonably Dangerous Requirement." He has given extensive seminars on trial practice, art of persuasion and defamation litigation.

Judge Beasley is a FAA certified flight instructor for single multi engine airplanes and instrument. He is a member of the six (6) Diamond Aerobatic Flight team, number two (2) position as well as a qualified Professional Race Pilot, National Air Racing Group (Unlimited class) and a QB at Phl Hanger.

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