The Honorable Cynthia M. Rufe is a judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. She was born in 1948 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

She attended Adelphi University where she received her Bachelor of Arts in 1970. After obtaining a degree in education and teaching, for several years she attended the State University of New York at Buffalo Law School. She graduated with her J.D. in 1977.

Upon graduation from law school, she served as a public defender in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, spending much of her tenure there in the juvenile division. She became a deputy public defender in 1980. Soon thereafter, she left government service to practice privately. She practised in her own firm for 11 years, gaining prominence in the local legal community. In 1994, she was elected as a Judge on the Bucks County Court of Common Pleas, where she served for eight years, until 2002.

On January 23, 2002, President George W. Bush nominated her to fill the seat vacated by the Honorable Norma Levy Shapiro on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. She was confirmed by the Senate on April 30, 2002, and received her commission on May 3, 2002.http://www.fjc.gov/public/home.nsf/hisj

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