The Honorable Thomas L. Ambro to Receive the 2015 American Inns of Court A. Sherman Christensen Award

Thursday, September 17, 2015

ALEXANDRIA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Judge Thomas L. Ambro has been selected to receive the prestigious A. Sherman Christensen Award by the American Inns of Court. The award will be presented at the 2015 American Inns of Court Celebration of Excellence at the Supreme Court of the United States in October; the event will be hosted by Associate Justice Elena Kagan.

Ambro is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He was nominated by President William Jefferson Clinton in September 1999. Prior to taking the bench, he was in private practice in Wilmington, Delaware, from 1976 to 2000. He served as law clerk to Chief Justice Daniel L. Herrmann of the Delaware Supreme Court from 1975 to 1976.

Long active in the American Inns of Court movement, Ambro is a member and past president of the Richard S. Rodney American Inn of Court and an organizing member and former co-chair of the Delaware Bankruptcy American Inn of Court. He served on the American Inns of Court Board of Trustees for two terms, and has also served on the strategic planning and awards committees, the Leadership Council, and the Temple Bar Scholarships Committee. Ambro is an active volunteer in the American Inns of Court Judicial Assistants Exchange Program.

A magna cum laude graduate of Georgetown University, Ambro worked on the staff of U.S. Senator William V. Roth, Jr. He was the first Delaware attorney to be inducted as a Fellow of the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers. He is a member of the American Bar Association, the Delaware State Bar Association, the Board of Editors of Delaware Lawyer magazine, the American Law Institute, the National Bankruptcy Conference, and the American Bankruptcy Institute. He is an adjunct assistant professor at Georgetown University where he helped to establish a scholarship to assist students whose financial need increases after their first year.

The A. Sherman Christensen Award is bestowed upon a member of an American Inn of Court who, at the local, state, or national level, has provided distinguished, exceptional, and significant leadership to the American Inns of Court movement. The award is named for the founder of the first American Inn of Court, and is funded by an endowment established by LexisNexis.

The American Inns of Court, headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, fosters excellence in professionalism, ethics, civility, and legal skills. The organization’s membership includes more than 30,000 federal, state, and local judges; lawyers; law professors; and law students in more than 380 chapters nationwide and more than 100,000 alumni members. More information is available at www.innsofcourt.org