Peter Silvain

Peter B. Silvain Jr. is a magistrate judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. He assumed office on May 10, 2021.

Biography

Education

Silvain received his B.A. with honors from Mount Saint Mary’s College, attended graduate school in public health at Johns Hopkins University, and received his J.D. from the Washington and Lee University School of Law. ^[1]

Professional career

Before joining the Southern District of Ohio, Silvain served as a federal administrative law judge for the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Administrative Law Judges (2011-2021) and for the Social Security Administration (2009-2011). Before that, Silvain was:

• a law clerk for Judge William Cave, chief judge of the Sixth Circuit of Maryland;
• an interim clerk for Judge John McAuliffe on the Maryland Court of Appeals;
• in private practice as a litigator with Semmes, Bowen & Semmes in Baltimore, Maryland;
• in private practice at Samek, McMillan & Metro in Rockville, Maryland;
• an assistant county attorney for Montgomery County, Maryland;
• in the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of the Solicitor; and
• an adjunct professor of healthcare law and administration at the Columbia Union College in Maryland.^[1]

Judicial career

Southern District of Ohio

Silvain joined the Southern District of Ohio as a federal magistrate judge on May 10, 2021.

See also

• United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio
• United States Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit

External links

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• United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio
• United States Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit

Footnotes

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