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Richard Gergel (Richard Mark Gergel) was born on 14 August, 1954 in Columbia, South Carolina, is an American judge (born 1954). Discover Richard Gergel's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 69 years old?

Popular As Richard Mark Gergel
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Age 69 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 14 August, 1954
Birthday 14 August
Birthplace Columbia, South Carolina
Nationality United States

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1954

Richard Mark Gergel (born August 14, 1954) is a South Carolina lawyer who serves as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina.

1975

Born in Columbia, South Carolina, Gergel earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Duke University in 1975 and a Juris Doctor from Duke University School of Law in 1979.

Gergel's cousin was well-known industrial chemist Max Gergel, President/CEO of the Columbia Organic Chemical Company, or COCC.

1979

From 1979 until 1980, Gergel served as a law clerk for a law firm in Columbia, South Carolina, and he was a partner with the firm from 1981 until 1982.

1983

Beginning in 1983 and continuing until his nomination to the district court, he was the president and partner with his own law firm (most recently known as Gergel, Nickles and Solomon) in Columbia.

He has specialized in personal injury law.

1994

In 1994, Gergel was the attorney representing the South Carolina Education Association and public school teacher Maggi Smith Hall.

The case went to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, VA, and was considered one of the most important First Amendment cases to come down from the 4th Circuit in over a decade.

At the time, the 4th Circuit was also considered to be the most conservative court in the nation.

The case, Hall v. Marion School District 2, 31 F.3d 183 (4th Cir. 1994), upheld the lower court's decision that Mullins District 2 acted illegally in firing Hall for exercising free speech in criticizing her superintendent and school board for reckless spending.

2003

(Laura Sullivan, Baltimore Sun, November 18, 2003)

2009

On December 22, 2009, President Barack Obama nominated Gergel to serve on the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina to fill the seat vacated by Judge Henry Michael Herlong, Jr., who assumed senior status on June 1, 2009.

In his questionnaire to the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Gergel wrote that South Carolina Democratic Congressmen John M. Spratt, Jr. and Jim Clyburn both previously had recommended Gergel to Obama as a district court nominee, and that South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham also supported the nomination.

2010

Gergel had a hearing before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary on April 16, 2010.

He was confirmed by the United States Senate on August 5, 2010, and received commission on August 9, 2010.

2015

Gergel was the presiding judge on the trial of Dylann Roof, who was convicted of 33 federal charges relating to the 2015 Charleston church shooting.

Roof was convicted on all charges and controversially represented himself during the sentencing phase despite Gergel warning Roof it was not in his best interests to do so.

2017

On January 11, 2017, Gergel sentenced Dylann Roof to death after the jury recommended the death penalty the previous day.

2019

Gergel is the author of Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Awakening of President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waties Waring (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019) and, with Belinda Gergel, of In Pursuit of the Tree of Life: A History of the Early Jews of Columbia, South Carolina (1996).